We are pretty thrilled at seeing Star Trek’s fictional transporter beam, where a person can be beamed from the space ship all the way down to the surface of the planet. Wouldn’t that be cool if it were real?
Well, what if a person’s most inmost and precious thoughts could be transported to not just another place, but to another time, even hundreds or thousands of years away? Of course this is the miracle of a book. Even God Himself uses this miracle to give us His precious thoughts, rules for relationships, and teachings.
For our part, all that is asked of us is learn how to read, and the miracle of our mind interacting with the mind of another person across space and time through the medium of a book becomes accessible to us.
This is the true miracle of ‘self teaching’; learning to interact with the thoughts of an author through the medium of a book.
Then comes the more difficult task of carefully selecting which minds and thoughts, which books we want to help form our children’s minds as they develop and grow. The task of having your children taught by the best authors through the best books in the English language (learned through a large vocabulary of well defined words), appropriate to their capabilities as their minds develop.
This is where the Robinson Curriculum comes in.