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A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century Paperback – September 1, 2009
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In A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century, Oliver DeMille presents a new educational vision based on proven methods that really work! Teachers, students, parents, educators, legislators, leaders and everyone who cares about America's future must read this compelling book.
- Print length198 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTJEdOnline.com
- Publication dateSeptember 1, 2009
- ISBN-100983099669
- ISBN-13978-1615399918
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I find myself nodding my head and marking passages that sound like something I might have said--and DeMille says it so well. TJEd gives clarity and purpose to the decision to homeschool, and a template that can be applied by any family to achieve their goals.
I refer to it often as a handbook to help me further my own studies, and highly recommend it to anyone interested in quality education. Parents, teachers, and students alike will be energized by this exciting book. --Rebecca Kochenderfer, author of Homeschooling for Success: How Parents Can Create A Superior Education For Their Child; Senior Editor, Homeschool.com, the web's #1 homeschool site & Forbes Best of the Web Top 45 winner
As a cofounder of Acton MBA, I believe our future rests on how we inspire the next generation of leaders to educate themselves safe from the meddling of assembly line schools.
Oliver DeMille's book, A Thomas Jefferson Education, has reminded me that master teachers believe that each child who walks into their classroom is a genius, waiting to be discovered. --Jeff Sandefer, Founder and Faculty Member, Acton MBA, A Princeton Review Top-3 Program
Like most homeschooling parents, I found it difficult not to fall into doing conveyor-belt education at home, using grades, grade-level materials, and checklists. After several years of doing this, I had successfully helped one of my children go from Core phase into Hate-of-Learning phase, where her main goal was to get the schoolwork done, as quickly and with as little effort as possible, so she could have her time back. It was awful.
As I discovered and began to understand the Seven Keys of Great Teaching as presented in the Thomas Jefferson Education book (and DeMille s presentation on the Seven Keys), I realized why I had been so successful at creating a hate-of-learning student. Her textbooks were so boring, even I could not stand reading them. We were focused entirely on content, not time. Home education had become so complex, there was no time for simplicity. The results were tedium and frustration. I found that it is very, very hard not to do to my children what was done to me by schools.
Now, having applied for several years albeit imperfectly the Seven Keys... , along with many other ideas gleaned from the TJEd book and related materials, my children are thriving. They really don t know or care what grade they are in, and they never say the word schoolwork (except by accident). We study as a family, and the Love of Learning phase is truly exciting.
My older children have been successful in Great Books programs in college, and I, myself, have taken time to read and study more than I ever would have thought possible. As you might imagine, I am profoundly grateful to Oliver DeMille and his co-authors for opening this world of educational thinking, life to me.
It is now my great privilege to be able to speak to parents and teachers around the world, and help them rebuild their education paradigm, pointing them to the same source of wisdom that I was so fortunate to find. --Andrew Pudewa, Director of the multi-award winning Institute for Excellence in Writing
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- ASIN : 1615399917
- Publisher : TJEdOnline.com; First Paperback Edition (September 1, 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 198 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0983099669
- ISBN-13 : 978-1615399918
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Best Sellers Rank: #47,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author

Oliver DeMille is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Globe and Mail best-selling author, the founder of The Center for Social Leadership, and the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education, 1913, FreedomShift and The Student Whisperer - among others.
He and his wife Rachel are the developers of Thomas Jefferson Education, an educational philosophy and methodology for building mission-driven leaders.
Oliver is a popular author, keynote speaker, and consultant. Presently, he devotes a majority of his time to writing. He and his wife Rachel are raising their 8 children in southern Utah. Connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and via his websites: OliverDeMille.com and TJEd.org.
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The Thomas Jefferson education philosophy is great and interesting at the same time. I definitely see these stages at work in my children.
“Lay down true principles, and adhere to then inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender…” Thomas Jefferson
Homeschooling father Oliver DeMille gives the reader insight as to how Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson was educated and how to implement the principles of “leadership education” in the home, public and private school settings. DeMille begins by addressing our present educational crisis: “Teaching not education, should be our focus, because great teaching inspires students to educate themselves.” The reader is guided through the three major types of schooling: Conveyor Belt Education, Professional Education and Leadership Education. Next, DeMille breaks down “leadership education” into the “phases of learning” which consist of: Core Phase, Love of Learning Phase, Scholar Phase and Depth Phase. “The basic tenets of a Thomas Jefferson Education are classics and mentors, depth and breadth, quality and application,” which are covered in the remaining chapters of the book. There is an appendix which includes: 100 Classics, Classics for Children and Youth, Sample Discussion Questions, Where to Find the Classics, Recommended Readings, and Putting Thomas Jefferson Education to Work and Notes.
“A Thomas Jefferson Education” can be used as the primary philosophy of education or it can be combined with another.
Overall, “A Thomas Jefferson Education” is an excellent resource to prepare the children of today to become the leaders of tomorrow.
Reading the classics rather than textbooks felt like a regurgitation from Charlotte Mason.
The Phases of Learning (Core, Love of Learning, Scholar and Depth) felt like a modified (and less compelling) rendition of Dorothy Sayer's The Lost Tools of Learning.
The mentorship chapter - "Question, probe, ponder, think, discuss, write, apply..." is reminiscent of the Socratic Method.
For someone who claims to love the classics, I was disappointed to see he didn't draw from their expertise in the realm of academics.
I did appreciate his comments on teaching: "...great teaching inspires students to educate themselves." And later on, "The most effective way to ensure the quality of their education is to consistently improve your own." It was a nice reminder that education is a lifelong pursuit.
Yet, that very solution - great teaching - to a crumbling education system was poorly executed. His recommendation was, drum roll, to read the classics. It's severely simplified. I'm left feeling...uninspired.
((After I finished the book, I did some research and see his college, George Wythe University was steeped in controversy. Looks like it's no longer around. 😕))