THE HOMESCHOOL RESOURCE PAGE (This page is not nearly as complete as I would prefer it to be because this subject is SO important. But I've only so much time...)
Let's face it. All public schools, and most charter and private schools, are infested with socialism-- as well as drugs, violence, moral relativism, and a dozen other pathologies. Handing a child over to such a place amounts to abuse.
Regarding The "Socialization" Canard Intellectual Ammunition on Education A Modest Proposal For A New Industrial Policy Save the Children, Save the Future Getting Education Reform Right A lot of people who genuinely care about their children are nonetheless seduced into abandoning them to the schools because of the apparent cost to the family budget if one parent forgoes a job in order to homeschool. However, learning the truth about the income tax will reveal that the sacrifice needn't be nearly as much of a problem as might be imagined.
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Educational Videos
Here's a sampling of educational videos available for the edification of both parent and child:
For more of these short videos, visit learnliberty.org/videos
***** Resources we have used and appreciated: the Saxon Math series saxonpub.com (K-12) the Wordly Wise series from Educators Publishing Service 800-435-7728 (2-12) Science In A Nutshell delta-education.com Science Sleuths and Clue Finders, both at learningco.com An elementary-level but entertaining math drill site can be found at mathschase.com
FIRE, an organization dedicated to battling the PC problem in American universities The Institute for Humane Studies (They have a fabulous curriculum package available for K-12 homeschoolers)
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." -H. L. Mencken
Reading Recommendations Though the ages and reading levels at which some of the listed works may be best appreciated will vary, all of the following material should be consumed by the well-rounded student before the age of 18. There are, of course, countless other wonderful works to be enjoyed in addition to these selections, which are chosen mainly on the basis of their support for a love and understanding of liberty, or to fill in gaps typical in a contemporary education. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Animal Farm by George Orwell 1984 by George Orwell The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll The Complete Works of Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophicles and Aristophanes The Divine Comedy by Cervantes The Lord Of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien State of Fear by Michael Crichton Next by Michael Crichton Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Weapon Shops Of Isher by A. E. Van Vogt The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
Cracking the Code by Peter E. Hendrickson Upholding the Law by Peter E. Hendrickson Was Grandpa Really a Moron? by Peter E. Hendrickson The Worm In The Apple by Peter Brimelow JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglass Whatever Happened To Justice by Richard J. Maybury Whatever Happened To Penny-Candy by Richard J. Maybury A Parliament of Whores by P. J. O'Rourke The Rights Of Man by Tom Paine The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Lincoln Unmasked by Thomas DiLorenzo Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray Democracy In America by Alexis DeToqueville Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt Selected Essays On Political Economy by Frederick Bastiat The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith The Constitution Of Liberty by F. A. Hayek The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant Those Dirty Rotten Taxes by Charles Adams Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician by John K. Alexander Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke The Pinball Effect by James Burke For film recommendations, click here Thomas Jefferson's Recommended Reading List History The Histories by Herodotus History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Anabasis & Hellenica by Xenophon Life of Alexander the Great by Quintus Curtius Rufus The Gallic War & The Civil War by Julius Caesar Antiquities by Josephus Lives by Plutarch Annals & Histories by Tacitus History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons Philosophy Works of Plato by Plato Works of Cicero by Cicero Morals by Plutarch Moral Epistles & Essays by Seneca Memorabilia of Socrates by Xenophon Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Enchiridion by Epictetus An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume Candide by Voltaire Introductory Discourse and the Free Inquiry by Conyers Middleton Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Literature/Epic Poetry/Plays The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer The Aeneid by Virgil Paradise Lost by John Milton Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles Orestian Trilogy by Aeschylus The Plays of Euripides by Euripides Poems by Horace The Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare The Misanthrope by Moliere Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes The Adventures of David Simple by Sarah Fielding The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Poems by Edmund Waller Politics/Religion/Modern History Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu Two Treatises of Government by John Locke Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney The Bible The History of America by William Robertson Historical Review of Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin A History of the Settlement of Virginia by Captain John Smith Science On Electricity by Benjamin Franklin The Gentleman Farmer by Henry Home The Horse Hoeing Husbandry by Jethro Tull Buffon’s Natural History by Georges-Louis Leclerc Anson’s Voyage Round the World by Richard Walter |
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