The following is a comment I made on a loop:
Someone recently commented that these are all similar phases, but called something different. I would disagree. First of all, the grammar stage of classical ed requires much memorization and a steady dose of learning what the teacher requires. This is much different from the core & love of learning phases of leadership education where the child is able to choose what he will study. I can see more similarities between the Bluedorns younger ages and Core/Love of Learning than the classical grammar stage. I believe there are also differences between scholar phase and dialectic/rhetoric. The classical approach has more requirements than the leadership approach. I’m not saying one is better than the other, but these approaches do have differences in that they all emphasize something through their phases.
Personally, I like the idea of my children taking ownership of their own education as they choose their studies. Next week I will be discussing with my kids the idea of structuring our time, not our content. They do have a few requirements (humanities with George Grant and great books with Wes Callihan), but after that, they will be choosing their own studies. I expect my middle daughter to finish her algebra and biology because she wants very much to go to college.
Kerry
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