Home educate your child the classical way.

The Well Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education At Home.

I am a young parent based in Lagos, Nigeria. While I have been bothered with the quality of education in my own immediate environment, I have always been thinking about how my kids education will be world class and alas I found The Well Trained Mind (TWMT) on Amazon, bought and read it and ever since then I have been consulting it and I've even recommended it to friends.

TWMT teaches you how to educate your child from age zero up to adulthood and the good thing is that the methodology is borderless and a lot of the recommended literature readings in the book are readily available, even in Lagos for as low as $1.
For me and my family this book as given us key information about education:

1. Rote learning is better and easier done between ages 0 to 10;

 2. Short 15-45 minutes consistent classes on daily/weekly basis of any subject is enough to master a subject over a period of 12 years;

3. It introduced the concept of developing a reader in a child by recommending a jewel of a book "The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition" by Jim Trelease;

 4. The Authors' keep a very interactive online forum http://www.welltrainedmind.com/;

5. The Authors' are very responsive to your challenges even for someone like me in Lagos, Nigeria; they still responded to my family's educational challenge by proffering a solution that actually worked after I mailed them on an observation.