I’ve never read the second book, so I can’t speak at all to the particulars of their educational method.

It’s fun to think about how Thomas Jefferson and his peers would have been education. At the time there was no formal grammar, logic, or rhetoric stages. Although he would likely have started with light lessons in Latin, Greek, and English as a young child. Which does mean memorizing Latin and Greek vocabulary and grammar. Sometime around puberty, he’d spend quite a bit of time studying the classical (in the original Latin or Greek). I’m trying to remember if he went on to university. Do you know, Cindy?

I’ll admit. I much prefer The Well-Trained Mind’s approach to education! 🙂

Thomas Jefferson and other leaders in our history were taught in a more classical way. They learned their facts, names, dates, etc. in the grammar stage. They did have mentors and they participated in apprenticeships, but not until their formal “book learning” was well established.