What we have is the product of government education (parents) sending unprepared offspring to receive the same pitiful government education. How can we expect anything of quality?
Aquinasfan, you sound like a proponent of "Classical Education."
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Absolutely.
Our mission is also to equip schools in teaching such subjects through the methodology known as the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric), the educational foundation of our Western culture.This is the single best book that I've found on the subject. It's worth more than an entire, typical high school education.