Posted in The Principle Approach: Self-Directed Study

I began my study (exhaustive, I might add--whew!) of the Principle Approach beginning in May, 2006.  The following is what I've gleaned personally.  PA has been described in this way...

    The Bible is the heart of PA and History taught from a providential view is the backbone.  For this reason, many of the verterans recommend starting with history.  Bible is automatically weaved in since every subject is studied first as it relates to God's Word.

1. The Principle Approach is a Biblical, Classical Education that
   uses the Bible as the greatest source of learning across the curriculum.
   It focuses on America's Christian History and our historical Christian form of
   government as an example of how the student should develop in Christian
   character.
2. The Principle Approach has identified 7 character traits that were
   predominate assets of the people God used in the building of our
   Christian nation. Those traits are taught across the curriculum through
   the example of the great men and women of our nation.
3. In the Principle Approach, all subjects are taught (a) first from what
   the Bible reveals; (b) how they relate to the 7 character traits of godly
   men and women God used to build our Christian nation; also (c) how they are
   defined in Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary (as originally submitted by
   Noah Webster with its Biblical references), and also (4) where your subject
   lines up with the Chain of Christianity of the westward movement of the
   Gospel.
4. The Principle Approach teaches Christian scholarship by the
   students preparing Notebooks in all their subjects showing the subject
   as a whole with the origin and foundations of the subject and then
   breaking it down into parts.

This is the broad perspective.  Hopefully, as we go on we can begin to break it down into bite-size pieces that we can digest.

Karen