Not an comprehensive list by any means, these are some of the best books we own, borrowed, have read, and are reading on the subject of learning. These are the books that have formed our own philosophy of home learning!
Better Late than Early
by Raymond and Dorothy Moore
Feeling like you need to buy curriculum for your preschooler? Please read this book first! Although it's dated in some ways (copyright 1975), and I don't agree with a lot of the chapter on babies/small children (among some other parts of the book), it's a great read about how pushing our children into schooling before they're physically, mentally, and emotionally ready can do more harm than good.
For the Children's Sake
by Susan Shaeffer Macaulay
This is a popular homeschool book based on Charlotte Mason. Mason herself wrote a 6 volume turn-of-the-(last)-century British English "manifesto" on learning. I have yet to read it, but do know a lot about Mason and her ideas.
FTCS is a great intro to Mason.
Teach Your Own
(or his books How Children Fail, Learning All the Time, How Children Learn)
by John Holt
Dumbing Us Down
by John Taylor Gatto
Here's another controversial book I'd like anyone considering home learning to read. Gatto, even more "anti-school" than Holt, if that's possible, may have some unique ideas (I don't quite believe schools were created to form eventual store clerks or burger flippers), but from a guy that has WAY more teaching experience than I, and a great writer/speaker, I do like Gatto. His other books are on my "to-read" list.
(Then maybe I'll believe the store clerk ideas?)
I'm sure I'll be adding more to this list.
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We also read the NKJV Reformed Study Bible.
One of my favorite verses to keep in mind with my girls (especially when they're provoking me)?
Ephesians 6:4...
"And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath,
but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord."
