Another Book I (Christy) am Reading is “The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach”

January 13th, 2007 at 3:02 pm (Christy)

This book is written by Robin Sampson, author of “A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays.” In it she describes the philosophy of training our children according to Biblical principles and getting beyond the Greek training we probably went through in our education. She gives a great history of education and describes how the Hebrews educated and trained their children. In her book she proposes that we train our children towards gaining God’s wisdom, all you have to do is read the book of Proverbs to see this is what God desires for each of us. This includes a great amount of time in the day spent studying God’s Word. Studies for other subjects are centered around a specific topic, then you try and plumb all the aspects you can of the topic as related to history, geography, spelling, etc. Another way to say it would be unit studies. This seems to be a great way of tying God’s Word into subjects and then teaching how to think and study. I know there are different ways of doing unit studies but Sampson does not use the “classical” method because of it’s Greek roots. It is a resource worthy of checking out and Google books has parts of the book for FREE online.

2 Comments »

  1. Robin Sampson said,

    February 25, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    Thanks for the mention. I’m glad you like the book.

    Blessings,
    Robin

  2. theresa said,

    January 28, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    I love the Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach. It expanded my thinking on many topics - not just homeschooling,
    Blessings,
    Theresa

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