Homeschooling with Gentleness

Homeschooling with Gentleness

Homeschooling with Gentleness

Homeschooling with Gentleness

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Overview

Can a Catholic in good conscience unschool? Suzie Andres ably answers this question in the second edition of this unschooling classic-- and the answer is yes! Suzie Andres describes her search for the perfect educational methods for her children which led her to unschooling: "It has taken years of trial and error, along with the grace of God, for us to find the homeschooling approach that fits our family best. I have enjoyed writing about our experience in the hope of helping others to discern how God is leading them." This approach to education is not only gentle but filled with a trust in God and the natural tendency for learning that He has placed in us all. From the foreword by Ralph McInerny: "You will find here no brief against the compulsory schools. Rather homeschooling is seen as the natural way, the basic way, in which children can be taught. Schools of the usual sort are an afterthought. Doubtless some of them still do a tolerable job. Suzie Andres is far more interested in putting before the reader the positive, attractive, practical, fulfilling notion of homeschooling."

Product Details

BN ID: 2940157962227
Publisher: Hillside Education
Publication date: 12/28/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 156
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Suzie Andres and her husband Tony graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in 1987 and went on to study philosophy with Ralph McInerny at the University of Notre Dame. One Master’s degree (Suzie), one Ph.D (Tony), and one son (Joseph) later, the family moved to Front Royal, Virginia, where Tony taught at Christendom College. In 1996 they began homeschooling, and second son Dominic joined the experiment six years later. Homeschooling with Gentleness was written while Dominic slept and Joseph happily unschooled.
Eventually the family moved to California where Tony began teaching, and Joseph studying, at Thomas Aquinas College. Meanwhile, having awakened a fair degree of skepticism in readers with
more than one or two children, Suzie decided to assemble a second book on Catholic unschooling, to feature families that represented a wider spectrum of Catholic life. The result was A Little Way of Homeschooling, Thirteen Families Discover Catholic Unschooling (Hillside Education; 2011).
She has subsequently written her first novel, The Paradise Project (Hillside Education; 2015) and edited Selected Sermons of Thomas Aquinas McGovern, S.J. (Thomas Aquinas College; 2014).
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