Educational Decay: Loss of 18th Century Rigor

I have recently been reading Teaching A Generation of Leaders: A Thomas Jefferson Education for the 21st Century by Oliver Van DeMilleIle. ✧ This book was given to me by my sister, who was leaps and bounds above me in knowing the best way to educate her children. Having graduated Cum Laude from a University with a Bachelor’s in Education and having experience teaching in the public school, surely I had more expertise in educating children, compared to what she and her “odd” ideas of homeschooling could. She and most parents that are seeking an alternative to public school, in most part, are doing so because they have realized, what I have only recently become aware of, that an education today is NOT a true education. ✧ Betty Peters puts it succinctly when she states, “What is missing from 21st Century Skills? 18th Century Rigor!”

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