Would you like to get your questions answered about classical education? Why should my child learn Latin and logic? Are memorization and copy work really necessary? What is a dialectic, and isn’t Poll Parrott a cartoon character? Listen to this group discussion and find out!Note from Jennifer (I get the last word here since I’m doing the data entry!): I said in the class, when we were talking about rhetoric, that it is the power to persuade, to change people’s minds, and made the comment “What missionary doesn’t want that?!” I need to clarify that comment, since as a returned missionary myself and having a current missionary son out, I thoroughly understand that it is the Spirit that converts–sometimes in spite of the bumbling missionary. However, when my husband was ward mission leader and would go on teaching appointments with the missionaries, he would sometimes come home and say, “Wow, these missionaries are having trouble. When the investigator asks them fairly simple questions, they have a really hard time stating the answer in a way that is clear and understandable.” What they needed during their teen years was lots of practice in expressing themselves verbally. As missionaries we are instruments in the hands of the Lord, but whether we are blunt and dull or sharp and effective depends on our preparation.
