A home schooling program at Maryville, Tennessee educates children with the middle age pedagogy. The home-based program utilizes classical education curriculum in training young learners. The results are still unseen but the program is becoming popular in the state.

Young students learn in a four walled environment and taught with classical curriculum including grammar, rhetoric and logic. Directors train children with discipline and a lot of memory work. Directors teach students inside but they also conduct sessions on Dotson Memorial Baptist Church in Maryville.

Renae, who has a son diagnosed with asperger’s syndrome, transferred his son from public school to the home school program. According to him, his son has an excellent memory but has problems on social aspects and home school would be fitted for him.

Directors said that children will be taught with strong education foundations breaking subjects into grammar writing and math drills. Students will not be isolated even kept inside because there are 10 students accepted for the program. Parents will also get the privileged of monitoring their children at the same time socialize with fellow parents.

Classical Conversation will open its house on August 31 2010 and will held classes at Dotson Memorial Baptist Church, 814 Dotson Memorial Road, Maryville. They have also programs launched at Lenoir city and Knoxville which accepts enrollees year round.

Classical education roots from the western culture and traditions and a glance back to the ancient Greek philosophy of educating man. The curriculum takes great consideration on the systematic framework of teaching based on man’s development phases. The education program are compose of different levels chronologically; the primary, secondary and tertiary education.

In primary education, young children which are considered as sponges are taught with the Socratic Method; grammar, logic and rhetoric. Secondary education is incorporated with astronomy, arithmetic, music and geometry whereas tertiary education comprises law, theology, military strategy, medicine and science.