Since Mountainsong commented on my post regarding TJEd I realized that I never said what I have been reading to learn abut TJEd.  So far, I have read The Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver DeMille.  Then I read the Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion also by DeMille, his wife and Diann Jeppson.  Lately, I have been working on digesting several papers and a CD-recorded lecture all from Demille and others at George Wythe College.  Those papers and the lecture are sold as a package by the Institute for Excellence in Writing or you can buy them individually from the college.

The first book was good but left me wondering how in the world it all works.  I think it was certainly worth my while to read it but I definitely needed to read something else to understand it.  I am planning to read it again soon; I think it will make much more sense now that I have studied it in other books.

The Home Companion is more practical.  It is simply a collection of articles by the three authors.  Included in the book is an article on feminism that is absolutely the best thing I have read on that subject.  If it were not copyrighted I would post a copy of it here.

Now having gone through those and still finding myself fairly bewildered, I started in on the lecture on CD and the papers.  These have been incredibly helpful, answering many questions raised by the first two books.

Someone just starting into the subject may be tempted to skip the first two to begin with the package deal from IEW.  I don't know.  What I do know is that I I don't know if I can do it!  One day I am ready to give it all I've got but then the next day I look at myself, my family, my house and realize it is beyond me!

Still working through it...

Michele