Raising Lifelong Learners

All my children know I have one particular requirement before they can graduate from our homeschool. They must read and discuss with me How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren.

Why is this book so important? Because one of the most critical skills I can impart to my children is the ability to learn. I don’t want to complete our home education only feeding my children fish. I want to teach them to fish. A person who has the skill of learning has the ability to find the information they need, to decide which books to read, to comprehend what is in those books, to critically evaluate their arguments, and to compare and synthesize this information with other sources. How to Read a Book teaches all of these skills! To learn more about why this book is important and what it teaches, you can listen to the workshop I gave at the 2016 Thrive! The NCHE Homeschool Conference, Raising Lifelong Learners.

You can stream the talk now, or download it for free here.