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23B1 · 2024-06-12 · Original thread
Have been saying this for a while now, mostly as a result of 'post truth'.

"The primary goal of early education was to enable sound thinking, not aggregation of facts, because there just weren’t that many facts to be known."

In lieu of reliable facts, being able to suss out facts becomes more important. In our house, we've been focused on Trivium and Quadrivium à la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education and our favorite book is https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Trivium-Christian-Homeschool... (don't sweat the Christian bit, just focus on the education)

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