Better Together: Strengthen Your Family, Simplify Your Homeschool, and Savor the Subjects that Matter Most

by Pam Barnhill

Modern curriculum teaches reading comprehension skills with snippets of informational texts, tries to measure knowledge with multiple choice tests, and assigns busywork to attempt to illustrate accomplishment. A liberal arts education, on the other hand, builds virtue through habit, wisdom through communion with great thinkers in literature, and metaphorical thinking through poetry.