The Goals of TRISMS...
When the authors of TRISMS created the program for their children, they had specific goals in mind. As the years have passed, these goals have become more defined, and sometimes have expanded when even greater goals were achieved in the lives of students as they went on to University and/or adult life.
Our Goals:
- To teach our children HOW to think, not just WHAT to think.
- To give our children the tools to research and discern the value of what they encounter so that when we are no longer available to answer a question, they can find an answer.
- To take History out of the realm of ho-hum dates and bring it alive by studying everything in context.
- To allow our children to develop their OWN personal world view through their studies of mankind and his history while still at home where we can guide, discuss, and “see the light come on.”
- To give our children a love for learning and literature through brief introductions to hundreds of classics and authors. We knew that once they had tasted the beauty of the masters, they would pursue it on their own.
- To allow our children to go as deep as they wish in a subject, and to take their findings and place them in an organized coursebook designed by them and for them. This becomes their own history book.
- To teach our children the value of time in an instantaneous society.
- To develop excellent communication skills in public speaking, research writing, opinion papers, and more.
- To provide an in-depth visit to the humanities so that our students realize that what a society produces speaks far more about it than what philosophers and historians may wish to interject.
- To provide an academically solid, college preparatory, and far-reaching education that goes to, but also beyond, the requirements to graduate, and into the marrow of civilizations outside of the West, and realms of study rarely introduced in our educational systems today.
We believe that these goals are not only attainable, but are normal, because we believe that our children are able to produce far more than we think - and we have the testimonials to prove it!