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The Dynamic Duo: Reed and May Benson Home Education--The Wave of the Future! Come enjoy Reed Benson's wit and wisdom. His wit will make you laugh and his wisdom will touch you deeply. Using examples from his own experiences, Dr. Benson will discuss the many advantages and few disadvantages of homeschooling, legal questions, planning considerations, including curriculum and textbooks, and how to teach in your own home with confidence and faith. He will also share with us how to make the "Lord's library" the foundation of our home school books. May Hinckley Benson will share how their "grand experiment" in homeschooling taught a fearful mother 10 simple principles that assure any mother that she can teach her own children with confidence. She will teach us the importance of being humble and being teachable, both as necessary spiritual qualities in the child and in the parent, and how an attitude of humility will naturally enable us to create a happy, successful family education environment. |
Reed A. Benson
is a professor in the Ancient Scripture
Department at BYU and teaches a thousand students a semester. He
has written for a national news magazine and lectured widely, with
numerous TV interviews and press conferences. A former Air Force Chaplin
during the Korean War, he was the President of the Kentucky, Louisville
Mission. He served as Branch President in Oxford, England and in the
Israel District Presidency. Oldest son of President and Mrs. Ezra Taft Benson,
he
is the father of nine children and grandfather to twenty-four.
May Hinckley Benson was honored as Homeschooling Mother of the Year in 2000. She completed studies at the University of Utah, University of Maryland, and Cornell. With a great display of courage, for fifteen years she successfully home educated her nine adopted children in the early BSG* days. She is a popular speaker, and a pioneer in the home education movement. Listening to her speak is like listening to your own "universal Grandmother". She provides the wise voice of experience to both veteran and novice home educators. (*Before Support Groups)
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