By Lee Harding Homeschooling parents are reviving classical education to teach their kids to think for themselves Modern education often tells students what to think rather than teaching them how to think. Chelsa Budd, a homeschooling mother in Regina, believes the antidote lies in recovering the lost art of classical education, a model that shaped minds for centuries before being discarded about a hundred years ago. Budd knows the modern system well. She earned a master’s degree in education at the University of Regina, where she was immersed in critical theory—an approach that views schooling largely through power, identity and social change. The end result is that schools often focus less on knowledge and more on turning students into activists shaped by identity politics. But her sister’s decision to give her own children a classical education challenged Budd’s assumptions. “She’s not afraid to offend you with an idea,” Budd recalls. “Of course … that felt very bad, but I...
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