Realizing the Vision for Self Education

Education should not merely be for the youth. Educating the mind should be a life-long exercise. In the same manner that we exercise the body to keep fit, so should we exercise the mind to keep our wit! I'm not one to muster rhyme, but it just popped into my head, so I could not resist.

As I have said before, The Well-Educated Mind (TWEM) is an uncanny piece of work. What I would like to do is take the concept of TWEM and expand that into a much grander scheme.

Mission Statement
To provide people with the option to expand their knowledge horizon to places they never thought possible and then for those people to pass that vision and experience on to others.

Objectives

• Provide the means for people to evaluate their position in the educational process
  Differing backgrounds coupled with variations in intellect produce the need for a more agile approach than one size fits all.
  
  
• Provide seminars and resources
  This is created for the purpose of marketing the concepts and generating revenue to promote the cause.
  
  
• Provide financial assistance so that all walks of life may participate
  This is not to be confused with the notion of a welfare community. Rather, the message is that the educated citizen is one of virtue and service. Those who benefit the most from the organization will likely become its greatest promoters.
  

For a variety of reasons, the curriculum should vary depending on whether the individual is a child or an adult. Just because an adult has a college degree should not imply that they should begin with a particular level of study.

The level should depend on the assessment. A typical adult may begin with similar materials found at the eighth grade reading level. At face value, this may seemingly be offensive to the adult, albeit unnecessarily. The curriculum for youth is quite aggressive.

Eight grade material includes a reading list such as:

• Paradise Lost
• Western Civilization
• Don Quixote
  

So to relieve the frustration and confusion, I believe it is best to separate the curriculum into two age categories (childhood and adult). Regardless, each age group should have the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) applied as appropriate.