Canon Press

Classical homeschooling students! Enjoy this light-hearted and, more importantly, short and concise explanation why you do what you do in class every day (spoiler: it's not because you'll use your knowledge of the Iliad Book 5 yearly until you die). Just in case no one told you, here’s the big picture behind the all the drilling and the crazy assignments and the reading of ancient texts. Another spoiler: knowledge and grades aren’t the goal – you’ll have to read the book to find what is.  Merkle, who was a student in one of the very first classical Christian schools in the US and teaches at a classical school now and is the mother of classically educated children, offers encouragement to students to persist and value the unique opportunities that a classical education provides now, so they can reap the benefits and advantages in the future. 116 pages, softcover. Grades 7 and up.