Posted on 01/28/2017 5:49:45 PM PST by rey
Is anyone familiar with the Great Courses, particularly Mathematics, Philosophy, and the Real World?
I have Building a sentence and Shakespeare word and Action. They are ok. I am using them with my home schooler. My library book store has the Mathematics and Philosophy one for $30. Curious if anyone is familiar with it and if this is a good deal. Thanks
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The history courses are very good.
OK. You have to help me. What is bfl?
I suspect they are all done from a liberal point of view. For instance the course on Bible history is taught by Bart Ehrman. He is an anti-Christian atheist that has written a dozen books designed to ridicule the teachings of the Christian Church.
I’d be skeptical of anything they put out.
Homeschool ping.
We used these for the majority of our high school curriculum. Latin, Algebra 1 and 2, Fundamentals of Math, Photography, Joy of Science, St. Augustine’s Confessions, Understanding the Universe, etc. The Great Courses Plus charges a monthly fee ($20?) but you have access to hundreds of their courses! My kids are conservative enough to catch the liberal leanings of some things but we just use it as a teachable moment to go find alternative reasons/facts/etc. There going to face this in college so an introduction to it in the comforts of home (and my watchful eye!) was a good plan.
Great for homemaking skills, too! All kinds of cooking and gardening classes. Art and music appreciation. You can truly build a good curriculum through them. Lots of science choices! All courses come with work/textbooks.
Here’s the Prof on the course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Grabiner
I do not see how mathematics could be too anti-Christian. The course is about how mathematics and philosophy influenced one another in western culture. I think the course addresses mathematically reasoning giving a false sense of precision and could be the basis for acting inhumanely. There is some wiggle room for anti-God, but not a lot. Of course I could be very wrong, that is why I ask.
Thanks. Forgot about the Latin one. Can you give me more info on that?
You are right. I talk to her all the time what she would be able to say or not say were she in a public school. She wants to go to a private school to play water polo.
*They are* going to face this in college. Sorry for the typo!
English, American history with emphasis on the US Constitution, Math, Economics, Accounting.
Whatever you do, don’t get on their mailing list. Emails and catalogs galore.
Seriously - being a frugal homeschooler, it has been difficult to fork out what they are asking for their courses. We have bought a few, and in general they have been decent enough. But they do not tend to get repeat viewings. I didn’t know about the subscription. That sounds like a good deal if you have high school age students.
If you go for a single course, watch a while - they are always having sales.
I’ve listen to a couple. They are recorded lectures. I found them to be fine. I never had any of the notes or texts. Like any other college course, some of the lectures were good. Some were a yawn.
I got them with credits on audible that had been accumulating over a few months, so I am not sure of a “value.”
I can’t tonight but will dig it out and give you an overview of what was in it. My kids used it as a supplement/in addition to a course they were taking through an online Classical Liberal Arts school. The oldest one got through it, the second in line has strayed so far from this. Her brain is completely different from her brothers! So I dropped it for her. I haven’t gone through it myself. I don’t have time for that so I really rely on the DVD’s and books for them.
A great course would be Saint Andrews, in Scotland.
Quite a bit of mathematics and philosophy involved....
Don’t know about that specific one. We have several of the basic math courses, half a dozen science ones, and loads of history and literature. Basically a whole college education other than science labs!
Right now, I’ve got “Late Middle Ages” in the car and “Herodotus’s Histories” in the kitchen.
It is all leftist interpretation in everything that they can stick politics into. I own several. Wish I didn’t. I also know one of the more prolific lecturers. Stay away.
It’s the lazy man’s way (or lazy woman’s way) of bookmarking in FR rather than creating a bookmark in his or her browser. By doing it in FR, hundreds of thread-readers will observe the FReeper’s laziness and have to skip over that post.
I plead ignorance, not laziness. What are you talking about? What is bookmarking in FR? Why would I create a bookmark in my browser for this? FR is bookmarked in my browser to quickly access instead of searching every time. You are obviously talking of marking something else there.
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