David Colfax

After reading the Colfaxs' memoir 'Hard Times in Paradise' I was interested in this book, and wanted to read about their 'plan' for organising your child's home education; especially considering they admitted in their memoir they didn't really have a plan.
This is a book very much of its time - most of the resources are out of date, and it even talks about giving your child a typewriter (though it mentions this may become redundant as word processors become more common). It was published before the internet was known to the general public, so many of the book recommendations are for references which you could probably get from the internet, or at the very least there are newer books available.
That said, I am sure it was a great book in its time, and at the very least there are a few sections which are more on the philosophy behind how they taught their boys, and that is pretty interesting.… (mere)

This is the book behind the book *Homeschooling for Excellence.* The truth is a little edgier than the version put out for those curious about homeschooling, but it's also very interesting. One gets a sense of how true Micki Colfax's suggestion was that her boys may have been eager to study because they had so much physical work to do. Do typical homeschoolers these days sit on the roofs of their homes at night, trying to keep it from flying off in the driving wind and rain?

This book was hard to find, but I'm glad I kept looking.… (mere)