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The Best Leadership Education For Your Child

Leadership education instructs children how to think and prepares them to be leaders in all areas of life: at home, in the community, in business, and in government.

This is the sort of education that most parents would like for their children. I know I want my children to be innovative thinkers.

Historically, most of the greatest leaders and thinkers got their education through mentors and tutors at home.

As the students’ education progressed, they moved on to prep schools. Continuing through the mentor approach, they would study the classics.

The best leaders were made through the mentoring system. Unfortunately, the leaders most Americans think of are usually trained to be specialists or professionals. They weren’t trained for true leadership.

Today’s nation is mostly comprised of followers who are blind to the problems in the current system. If the following generation is going to have a hope of overcoming this problem, it’s our responsibility to teach them how to be leaders who can make an impact in the world.

Four important keys make up leadership education: Mentoring, classics, and time.

Time. Students need time to learn. It is important to have some kind of structure for your child to learn, such as 5 days a week for 5 hours a day for older students.

This will allow enough time for your child to read and study. Younger students will not need so much time.

Mentors and Classics. We won’t separate these two factors of leadership education because learning how to think well is attained through discussion of the classics.

When the student is reading, it is just as essential for the mentor to read it. Ideally, the student and the teacher alike should write down key ideas in a reading journal.

You might choose to begin the day with an hour long math lesson. You might move on to writing or having a mentor discussion for another hour. In between, you could do studying, free reading, and experimentation.

This learning pattern has existed for centuries, shaping students and equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need for leadership.

Leadership education encourages you to find a mentor your children can read the classics with. Most of us can probably say that we are familiar with history and literature classics, but there are classics that pertain to all subjects.

Even in a subject like science, there are classics such as Newton’s Principia Mathematics. You probably wouldn’t want to begin with something like this, but when the appropriate time comes, try it.

Leadership education will teach your child how to think well. If you plan on being your child’s mentor, you must make sure that you are a great learner and thinker.