UPPER SCHOOL STUDY ESSENTIALS (EDUCATIONAL BASICS) COURSE
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You Or Them? - Control Over Your Life
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describing our Educational Essentials, or
"Basics" courses. It can be found by using
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School and pull down its menu. You'll see an entry on
educational ewssentials or "Basics". Go to
that page using that link. There, toward the top of
the page, you'll find the film covering these important
courses and how they work. After seeing that, please
return here and read the article. To look at a sample,
please click on the photo of the cover of this course that
you see on this page.
The next step after our most popular course,
Information - Right Or Wrong.
15 powerful lessons which will help a student understand
how the world around him or her attempts to control them,
and what they can do to maintain their own control over
their life.
TV, video games, drugs, "news", exaggerated patriotism, advertising, propaganda, peer pressure...with such ever-present forces pushing and shaping a person's life, it's very hard to find one's way to truth. It's hard to hear one's own thoughts, sometimes, in all the noise and demands being made. Children know, just as adults do, that they are not being told the entire truth about many things. It's impossible to make sane decisions without all the needed and correct informaton. What we are "fed" by our governemts and news media is often not true, or only partially true. Advertisers rarely say anything very honest...it's not to their advantage to do so. Everyone is pretty much aware that they're not told the truth a lot of the time, and that this is often an attempt to control out thoughts, feelings and actions. But what can we do about it? How can we ensure that we are each in control over our own decision-making process?
This course is a huge step toward providing a students, ages 11-adult, tools they will need to help confront the world and not be pushed and pulled unduly by others, their agendas, and their arguments.
WARNING - If you want a student who thinks for him or herself and makes up their own mind about ideas and actions, this is a good course to consider. If you do not want children thinking for themselves, this is a course you should skip.
Prerequisites should include having done CTT
Information - Right Or Wrong,
and
Upper School How To Do Research.
The student will understand these materials better, having
first done these other two courses in order, though the
course can stand alone.
To view a sample, just go to the picture of the cover
of the course, seen on this page, and click on it.
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This was an outstanding course. It made me evaluate who was in control of my life and not let outside influences, influence me; And the importance of keeping yourself in control of your life. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this course. I would highly recommend it to all students. Signed by a Student Himself, Rich Kelsey
| by Rich Kelsey | Date Added: 08/27/2010 |
We started Connect the Thoughts several years ago when
CurrClick offered the Spelling course as the free Monday
give-away. I was immediately impressed with the brilliance
of the author, Steven Horwich, as he recommended exactly
what we were already doing.
When we needed some Creative Writing assistance it was
easy to turn to Connect the Thoughts for aid. My daughter,
then 9, flat out refused to attempt any of the multiple
creative writing aids we had purchased. All of the courses
varied in price, cuteness, length, reviews, and
recommendations. The only thing they had in common was my
daughter’s resistance to anything they offered.
The Connect the Thoughts Creative Writing turned her
around and did so quickly. She went from not wanting to put
anything on paper to asking me how to write on the computer
so she could save the book she planned to author. She became
proud of her writing.
During her first Connect the Thoughts year our
daughter entered and placed Third in the Georgia Public
TV’s Reading Rainbow contest. She hasn’t stopped
writing, yet. After reading the How to Do Connect the
Thoughts Course, my daughter decided she wanted to try a few
of their offerings.
We started with Manners, Science and History. She
became excited about learning in a way that we had not seen
before. Giving her control over how fast and how in-depth
she studied changed everything for her. She started
notebooks for her courses and would study a subject for
hours spending time at our local library and at the home
computer. She would have discussions with her friends about
the things she was studying and seek their opinions. She
would chat, daily, with her father and I about things she
had learned.
We are a Connect the Thoughts family, now. We use
Saxon for Math and Grammar and Connect the Thoughts for
everything else. I converted my loyalties after hearing my
daughter quote Connect the Thoughts during a play date. We
had just finished the Information, Right or Wrong course.
The course is one of the best and I believe it should be
required for all students. It is a course that teaches
students to think. I don’t know of any other course
like it. The course suggests to the students that they get
the proof of information given to them. My daughter was
discussing something with a playmate and when they could not
agree on the facts of the matter she asked, “Where is
your proof?” I was so proud of her. She has since
become comfortable enough to ask the same question of her
father and me. I am still proud of her. The question tasks
me on occasion because I am forced to think, rather than
mime my answers.
The Upper School courses are as well done as the Lower
School courses. Steven Horwich is more than fair in his
pricing of the various courses. The courses include free
web sites for required movies, suggested books that can be
found in most libraries, experiments the students can do
(almost on their own) and hints and instructions for the
parents/teachers. My daughter has friends who are public
schooled and home schooled. All her friends have made
positive comments on her course notebooks. One of her public
schooled friend asks every visit to see what is new in the
science notebook. She says my daughter “gets to learn
so much more” than she ever learns.
Our family will be staying with Connect the Thoughts
through Upper School. I am sure our daughter will take the
lessons, so beautifully presented, with her on her
life’s course. “Where is the Proof?” is
part of our daughter now and we know it will serve her
well. Some people never learn to ask that question. Because
of Steven Horwich our daughter learned to ask the question
before she had a real need to ask it. Her father and I will
be thanking Steven in our prayers for the rest of our lives.
| by Karen Ann Osborne | Date Added: 08/27/2010 |
