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BrendaPeter
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cathochick wrote:

I like it because my first real homeschooling book was the Well-Trained Mind and it was overwhelming. I like that Campbell strips down the tremendous amount of classics to a few essentials. I like the emphasis on Latin (rather than as an optional side dish). Even Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum seems more of a "let's do it ALL!" book.

The scope and flow just seemed to click for me. But take my opinion with a grain of salt as my two are currently too young to implement most of what he says.

I just think that it's a worthwhile read to compare to the "cup runneth over" books.

What Jessica said

! I loved LCC too. For me it had a tremendous amount to do with timing - I read it WHEN I needed to read it.

It's funny to see how differently everyone implements what they read. For instance, after reading LCC, I signed my oldest dc (grades 6&7 at the time) up for a Seton course in an attempt to streamline. It worked out great & this year they're both enrolled in 3 Seton courses.

This quote, actually from "Climbing Parnassus" has stuck with me:

Latin provides intellectual training that leads to mental flexibility
and precision. Here's how:

"R. M. Wenley...illustrated the rigors entailed even in simple
translation from an example lent by a former teacher of his,
George G. Ramsay. Taking the simple two-word Latin sentence
'Vellum mortuos' ('I would that they were dead'), Ramsay observed
that understanding this sentence aright requires fourteen intellectual
turns. 'A student must know (1) the person, (2) tense, (3) voice,
(4) number, (5) mood of the verb vellum, (6) that it comes from volo,
meaning (7) I wish; and that (8) the subjunctive has here a particular
shade of meaning. As to mortuos, he must know that it is (9) the
accusative, (10) plural, (11) masculine, from (12) mortuus, meaning
(13) dead; (14) the reason why the accusative is necessary.' [...]
Can anyone seriously maintain that such stiff training in just
expression leaves no salutary marks upon the intellect of someone
who, having successfully run its gauntlet, becomes captive to the
habits of the precise mind?" (Climbing Parnassus, p. 177)

I walked away from LCC with a sense of Latin being a way to get lots of "bang for your buck" so to speak & with a sense of peace about focusing on LESS more DEEPLY. I tend get so overwhelmed with all the choices out there that I end up not moving forward. It's as if Andrew Campbell gave me permission to chuck alot of stuff & focus on the "best".

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BrendaPeter wrote:

I walked away from LCC with a sense of Latin being a way to get lots of "bang for your buck" so to speak & with a sense of peace about focusing on LESS more DEEPLY. I tend get so overwhelmed with all the choices out there that I end up not moving forward. It's as if Andrew Campbell gave me permission to chuck alot of stuff & focus on the "best".

Nicely said. That is what I like about Non Multa sed Multum too (I heard it originally years and years ago from reading books and articles about Ignatian education).

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What Brenda said too

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This summer was about me decluttering our shelves and our learning. I found that I had 7-8 English/Grammar/Language Arts programs I've gathered through the years to find "the best". Now we're doing Latin (which ties in so beautifully as well with Religion and History) and I'm so excited to finally find the reasons and the strength to get rid of "all the other stuff". Latin takes care of most of it, if not all.

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