What I suggest for home schooling is a double branched approach.
This is based on the Mirrer yeshiva high school system. They learn Torah in the morning until the time for afternoon prayer. In the afternoon they do secular studies.
Also there is an important dove tailed approach to learning at the Mirrer yeshiva once you get out of high school into the beit midrash [the large study hall for ages 18-22. [The large study hall is actually also for married people kollel. Or come to think of it pretty much for all ages.
At any rate-the morning is for in depth learning and the afternoon is for fast learning.
So what I suggest for people is this. To go though the entire Written and Oral Law, every single last word. (That is the Old Testament, the two Talmuds, and the midrashei halacha and midrashei agada)
Say the words and go on. If you don't understand the first time you will the second or third time.
But also to have an hour session in depth learning
Then for secular learning I suggest the basic program of the Rambam-to learn Physics and Metaphysics. Here also to just plow through the material as fast as possible,-say the words and go on.
But also to have in depth sessions. [Physics has gone further than the Aristotelian Physics the Rambam was referring to-but it still is the same subject matter. See the Guide for the Perplexed for more detail.] (Physics should be first to do relativity, then quantum mechanics and then string theory. And the second session in Math should be Algebra, Geometry, and then Algebraic Topology.)
Abraham Lincoln was self taught. And this goes back to an old American tradition of self reliance and do it yourself type of thinking.
To make this clear: each session should be about one broad topic. Lets say for example the Talmud. That comes under the broad category of Oral Law. So you go through the Babylonia Talmud, then instead of going back to the beginning, you go to the Jerusalem Talmud, and the the Sifra, Sifrei Tosephta, Mechilta Torat Kohanim--and only then do you go back to the beginning of the Talmud.
Also there should be one in depth session with a learning partner, or a rosh yeshiva. If you are in Kentucky where neither in available you could buy a book of depth thinking like the Avi Ezri of Rav Shach or the Chidushie HaRambam by Chaim Solovitchik.
That is you take a broad category. The same could be for the written Law. read through the entire Torah and prophets in Hebrew from the beginning to the end. [If you keep up with the Torah portion of the week that counts.]
Another broad category is survival skills which also should be done daily.
This is based on the Mirrer yeshiva high school system. They learn Torah in the morning until the time for afternoon prayer. In the afternoon they do secular studies.
Also there is an important dove tailed approach to learning at the Mirrer yeshiva once you get out of high school into the beit midrash [the large study hall for ages 18-22. [The large study hall is actually also for married people kollel. Or come to think of it pretty much for all ages.
At any rate-the morning is for in depth learning and the afternoon is for fast learning.
So what I suggest for people is this. To go though the entire Written and Oral Law, every single last word. (That is the Old Testament, the two Talmuds, and the midrashei halacha and midrashei agada)
Say the words and go on. If you don't understand the first time you will the second or third time.
But also to have an hour session in depth learning
Then for secular learning I suggest the basic program of the Rambam-to learn Physics and Metaphysics. Here also to just plow through the material as fast as possible,-say the words and go on.
But also to have in depth sessions. [Physics has gone further than the Aristotelian Physics the Rambam was referring to-but it still is the same subject matter. See the Guide for the Perplexed for more detail.] (Physics should be first to do relativity, then quantum mechanics and then string theory. And the second session in Math should be Algebra, Geometry, and then Algebraic Topology.)
Abraham Lincoln was self taught. And this goes back to an old American tradition of self reliance and do it yourself type of thinking.
To make this clear: each session should be about one broad topic. Lets say for example the Talmud. That comes under the broad category of Oral Law. So you go through the Babylonia Talmud, then instead of going back to the beginning, you go to the Jerusalem Talmud, and the the Sifra, Sifrei Tosephta, Mechilta Torat Kohanim--and only then do you go back to the beginning of the Talmud.
Also there should be one in depth session with a learning partner, or a rosh yeshiva. If you are in Kentucky where neither in available you could buy a book of depth thinking like the Avi Ezri of Rav Shach or the Chidushie HaRambam by Chaim Solovitchik.
That is you take a broad category. The same could be for the written Law. read through the entire Torah and prophets in Hebrew from the beginning to the end. [If you keep up with the Torah portion of the week that counts.]
Another broad category is survival skills which also should be done daily.
