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When you buy new homeschool curriculum, how do you know what you should buy? This all depends on how we understand what an education is anyway. When you buy new homeschool curriculum, here are five suggestions for you.

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“Education doesn’t need to be reformed — it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.” — Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element

What Does It Mean to Buy New Homeschool Curriculum Anyway?

What better place to learn than a home environment?

And if this is education, then the hunt for the perfect curriculum will not be required. And in my experience, finding that perfect curriculum won’t happen.

It will be as elusive as the Rosetta Stone.

(Wait, we saw the Rosetta Stone in a London museum in 2012.)

Okay, it’ll be as elusive as my attempt to write this simile.

So How Do You Decide When You Buy New Homeschool Curriculum?

Many curricula exist, but a perfect curriculum does not.