Local Classes for World Views of the Western World
Michael Farris, founder of Home
School Legal Defense Association and the National
Center for Home Education, and the President of
Patrick Henry College,
has endorsed "World
Views of the Western World"
"One of the best programs
I have seen that offers a clearly Christian classical
education is David Quine's World Views of the Western
World, published by the
Cornerstone Curriculum Project…World Views is a three-year
program that is built largely around the works of
Francis Schaeffer. Students still read Homer, Socrates,
and Machiavelli. But these are balanced not only by
Schaeffer's works, but also by St. Augustine, Luther,
and Calvin. Cornerstone's World Views is in its first
edition and has many good features in place that make
it quite usable for most home schooling mothers who
don't have the time to sit and read classical literature
for fifteen to twenty hours a week.
Quine also employs a
number of videos that are great teaching tools
for making history and literature come alive --
the movie Gettysburg, for example, plus presentations
by Schaeffer.
World Views is academically
challenging, Christian-based, and provides a good
exposure to classical literature, history, art, and
music. It is superior to almost all high schools,
as well as to the liberal arts components offered
in most colleges and universities."
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