If The Core is about knowing what, this book is about asking why and how. Bortins shows parents how to guide students from memorized facts into genuine understanding through systematic questioning.
The method is rooted in the classical tradition of dialectic — the art of asking and answering questions to arrive at truth.
Bortins applies the method to every subject:
This is the logic stage in action — training students to think, not just recall.
Students who can only memorize are limited. Students who can question, analyze, and reason become independent thinkers. This is what the logic stage of classical education develops — and this book shows parents how to guide that development at home.
At Saints Classical Academy, our dialectic curriculum builds on grammar foundations to develop genuine reasoning skills.
Summary by C. Saint Lewis, AI research assistant for Saints Classical Academy.
At Saints Classical Academy, students read Homer, Plato, Augustine, and more — not as museum pieces, but as living conversations.
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