Try out our brand new Homeschool Philosophies quiz! This version has a few philosophies that we revised to give you more accurate results. We’ve also added in two new philosophies.
Find out how you score with Charlotte Mason Education, Classical Education, Montessori, Project-Based Learning, Reggio-Inspired Learning, Thomas Jefferson Education, Traditional Education, a Unit Studies Approach, an Unschooling Approach, and Waldorf Education.
Share your results in the comments. Did anything surprise you? Do you think it is accurate?
Score for Charlotte Mason: 16
Score for Classical Education: 5
Score for Montessori Education: 8
Score for Project-Based Learning: 14
Score for Reggio-Inspired:19
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 4
Score for Traditional Education: 13
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 8
Score for Waldorf Education: 13
Charlotte Mason 14
Classical Education 14
Unschooling Approach 15
We have used Abeka through 8th grade. I find it interesting that Unschooling Approach is highest, as I am leaning toward a change. Thank you for this resource. I will continue my research.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 14
Score for Classical Education: 13
Score for Montessori Education: 11
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:12
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 14
Score for Traditional Education: 3
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 6
Score for Unschooling Approach: 11
Score for Waldorf Education: 23
Score for Charlotte Mason: 9
Score for Classical Education: 11
Score for Montessori Education: 3
Score for Project-Based Learning: 6
Score for Reggio-Inspired:12
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 12
Score for Traditional Education: 6
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 6
Score for Unschooling Approach: 0
Score for Waldorf Education: 6
Score for Charlotte Mason: 21
Score for Classical Education: 18
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Project-Based Learning: 21
Score for Reggio-Inspired:19
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 19
Score for Traditional Education: 5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 8
Score for Unschooling Approach: 16
Score for Waldorf Education: 12
Unschooling and Charlotte Mason were my high ones by quite a bit. I have one son in college and the other is a jr in high school. My husband gave me grief at times because we weren’t doing “enough” school/learning. Well, just because it doesn’t look like school doesn’t mean there’s no learning going on. They are doing fine, even without the structure. They know how to think for themselves.
These are my results not sure what any truly are but it’s what I got
Score for Charlotte Mason: 3
Score for Classical Education: 6
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Project-Based Learning: 11
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 10
Score for Traditional Education: 9
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 10
Score for Unschooling Approach: 9
Score for Waldorf Education: 14
So I think there is a reason we started homeschooling lol traditional education got a -14 😳🤣 my tops are unit studies and unschooling scoring the same and then Charlotte mason and Montessori close together. Which does not surprise me at all. We end up being eclectic in our approach. This will be our 11th year homeschooling.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 11
Score for Classical Education: 3
Score for Montessori Education: 12
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:8
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: -4
Score for Traditional Education: -14
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 17
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
Mine were:
Score for Charlotte Mason: 25
Score for Classical Education: 0
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 13
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 0
Score for Traditional Education: -5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 5
Score for Unschooling Approach: 23
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
We are Unschooling this year and I agree with my results.
So looking at the scores below I am as confused as ever…lol… I know structure is indeed what my child needs I also want the creativity and the freedom in areas like Montessori. He is bored quickly and is easily addicted to screen time and other items Guess I am going to have to go individually and look these up for a deeper understanding through out the summer to make a real decision was hoping this would give me the cut and dried answer.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 12
Score for Classical Education: 9
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 3
Score for Reggio-Inspired:12
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 9
Score for Traditional Education: 15
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 15
Score for Unschooling Approach: 6
Score for Waldorf Education: 6
This is our first year and my grand girl is in 6th Grade heading for 7th Grade. I am not familiar with some of these styles and will be busy learning about these. We scored high in Thomas Jefferson, Charlotte Mason and Montessori. Is anyone here familiar with Thomas Jefferson style? I’d appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
Score for Charlotte Mason: 19
Score for Classical Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 19
Score for Project-Based Learning: 11
Score for Reggio-Inspired:15
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 23
Score for Traditional Education: -3
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 13
Score for Waldorf Education: 10
Score for Charlotte Mason: 17
Score for Classical Education: 14
Score for Montessori Education: 8
Score for Project-Based Learning: 5
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: -5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 3
Score for Unschooling Approach: 12
Score for Waldorf Education: 6
I know a lot of my more strict, or regimental scores here are because I have a husband and children who want to see progress and structure. They are not indicative of what I personally think is best for learning. I intentionally filled out my test according to what I’m having to do now, with a little mix of what I strongly believe, just to see what it came out as. Not as bad as I thought, but not nearly what I thought it would be. Ah well, learning will happen regardless, even if its not as free spirited as I’d like. 🙂
Score for Charlotte Mason: 3
Score for Classical Education: 9
Score for Montessori Education: 8
Score for Project-Based Learning: 6
Score for Reggio-Inspired:6
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 3
Score for Traditional Education: 0
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 6
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
I have no idea what any of these mean but at least now I know what to start researching!
The following are my results.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 18
Score for Classical Education: 19
Score for Montessori Education: 21
Score for Project-Based Learning: 21
Score for Reggio-Inspired:21
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 4
Score for Traditional Education: 5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 25
Score for Unschooling Approach: 23
Score for Waldorf Education: 12
The highest are the unschooling and unit studies (thematic approach arre the highest. I believe that learning is experimental and experiential therefore I believe in learning anywhere, anytime with the resources available whatever they may be. I also love the Montessori and Project Based approach. The use of the senses and learning by doing are my favourite and use them wherever possible. Thanks for the quiz.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 25
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 25
Score for Classical Education: 23
Score for Montessori Education: 23
Score for Project-Based Learning: 20
Score for Reggio-Inspired:20
Score for Unschooling Approach: 20
Those are my top 3 and while I am not that familiar with Thomas Jefferson Ed and Reggio Inspired learning, the other principles is a good fit to what we’re trying to working on at the moment. I’d love to do some more research to explore these learning principles.
Charlotte Mason 17, Montessori 16 (which I currently use), and Classical 15. We tend to follow the child and do a lot of practical life skills. I never heard of Charlotte Mason or Classical. Unschooling and Reggio were tied for 4th at 14.
Classical, Montessori, Unschooling scored highest, significantly higher than any others. I would say this proves how truly eclectic our studies really have become over the course of my 22 years as a home educator, with each of these philosophies being so different from one another. I have to admit I was a little sad that Charlotte Mason did not rank highest for me because I truly admire her philosophy of education. But it is refreshing to think how well-rounded we are in our approach to developing the whole child.
My 2 biggest gripes for traditional school was the calendar (August 1 through Memorial Day weekend) and the absolute mess they teach in a public school. Now that we are homeschooling with an extremely popular curriculum my biggest gripe is the work load! They are in 2nd & 3rd…I don’t want to sit at the table with them for 8 hours or 6 or even 4 hours. Let’s get up, move around, put the pencils down and DO SOMETHING. It’s funny how my idea of education is shifting as they get older. We are going to have fun exploring this world of homeschool…and education, together.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 12
Score for Classical Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 6
Score for Reggio-Inspired:6
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: 9
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 3
Score for Waldorf Education: 9
I have two 7-year-olds right now. I wonder if these results may change as they get older.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 17
Score for Classical Education: 17
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:15
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 13
Score for Traditional Education: -4
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 17
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
Score for Charlotte Mason: 16
Score for Classical Education: 18
Score for Montessori Education: 12
Score for Project-Based Learning: 11
Score for Reggio-Inspired:14
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: 6
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 19
Score for Unschooling Approach: 16
Score for Waldorf Education: 9
I feel like the 4 that scored the highest for me are on very different ends of the homeschool spectrum 😅
I have tutored for more than 40 years a truly believe that children learn differently. What you do with one child may not work for another. I have tutored from first grade reading to college-level science, math, law, English, economics, history, etc. I structure what I teach and how I teach in on an individual student’s need and way of learning. This is one great advantage of not being in a regular classroom.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 3
Score for Classical Education: 11
Score for Montessori Education: 14
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:17
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 0
Score for Traditional Education: 0
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 9
Score for Waldorf Education: 3
Score for Charlotte Mason: 21
Score for Classical Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 17
Score for Project-Based Learning: 14
Score for Reggio-Inspired:9
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: -23
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 21
Score for Waldorf Education: 0
These results match well how I best learn personally. An adult now, I’m thankful I was homeschooled as a child. Though my parents were into more of a structured classroom at home type setting than I found useful or would use myself with my own children. I’m all for unschooling personally. And very glad I’ve never had anything to do with “traditional education” which if you look back further into history, is actually far from how anyone normally learned anything.
I scored 15 unschooling, 10 montessori, 8 Reggio. I wish relaxed style and religious were in this. I believe myself to have a relaxed-eclectic religious style approach. Also, I believe different things for different ages, abilities, children, and learning levels.
I had to be neutral on most questions because I was thinking, well, it depends on the child’s age, abilities, interests, my mood, my energy level, etc.
I cannot say your quiz is bad, though. It is just hard to have questions that put anyone into a certain category.
Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, Project Based were the top 3. No other scores were close. I am considering homeschooling my 5th grader and have never done this before.
My top 3 were Reggio-Inspired (19), Montessori Education (19) and Charlotte Mason (16). In that order. I’m not really sure what any of them are so now I have to go do some research to find out if the quiz was correct and what route I will end up doing. Thanks for the quiz.
My top 3 were Reggio-Inspired, Montessori Education and Charlotte Mason. In that order. I’m not really sure what any of them are so now I have to go do some research to find out if the quiz was correct and what route I will end up doing. Thanks for the quiz.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 21
Score for Montessori Education: 14
Score for Project-Based Learning: 16
Score for Reggio-Inspired:15
Score for Waldorf Education: 15
Tie between classical and unit studies, Charlotte Mason a relatively close second. I have…feelings about classical education as it is usually described, which is often quite different from both medieval education and Greco-Roman education (yes, they’re different), but we do incorporate some elements of all three of these, and mostly don’t incorporate elements of the philosophies that I scored low on. We are firmly in the eclectic camp; I was homeschooled myself and have Opinions.
The major components of our homeschooling approach that are missing from this analysis: I would say we are more broadly literature-based, rather than classic literature-based. (Tomorrow’s classics are being published today, and sometimes yesterday’s classics have not aged particularly gracefully.) For skill-based or sequential subjects (math, grammar, etc) I strongly favor a mastery-based approach, and especially in the younger grades, I believe multisensory methods of any type are extremely important to help understand concepts concretely and then generalize them.
I actually would love to see a quiz that plots out preferences on multiple sliding scales, instead of trying to directly match questions to philosophies: for instance, learning from a textbook vs a living book/literature vs experiences; teacher/parent-led vs student-led; reading/writing vs multisensory/project, and so on. The Myers-Briggs of curriculum, if you will. 🙂
I feel like this is pretty accurate for my family.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 8
Score for Classical Education: 4
Score for Montessori Education: 11
Score for Project-Based Learning: 17
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 3
Score for Traditional Education: -13
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 0
Score for Unschooling Approach: 12
Score for Waldorf Education: -1
Score for Charlotte Mason: 16
Score for Classical Education: 5
Score for Montessori Education: 8
Score for Project-Based Learning: 14
Score for Reggio-Inspired:19
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 4
Score for Traditional Education: 13
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 8
Score for Waldorf Education: 13
Now to learn what all these mean….
Charlotte Mason 14
Classical Education 14
Unschooling Approach 15
We have used Abeka through 8th grade. I find it interesting that Unschooling Approach is highest, as I am leaning toward a change. Thank you for this resource. I will continue my research.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 14
Score for Classical Education: 13
Score for Montessori Education: 11
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:12
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 14
Score for Traditional Education: 3
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 6
Score for Unschooling Approach: 11
Score for Waldorf Education: 23
Score for Charlotte Mason: 9
Score for Classical Education: 11
Score for Montessori Education: 3
Score for Project-Based Learning: 6
Score for Reggio-Inspired:12
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 12
Score for Traditional Education: 6
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 6
Score for Unschooling Approach: 0
Score for Waldorf Education: 6
Score for Charlotte Mason: 21
Score for Classical Education: 18
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Project-Based Learning: 21
Score for Reggio-Inspired:19
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 19
Score for Traditional Education: 5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 8
Score for Unschooling Approach: 16
Score for Waldorf Education: 12
Unschooling and Charlotte Mason were my high ones by quite a bit. I have one son in college and the other is a jr in high school. My husband gave me grief at times because we weren’t doing “enough” school/learning. Well, just because it doesn’t look like school doesn’t mean there’s no learning going on. They are doing fine, even without the structure. They know how to think for themselves.
Charlotte Mason
Project based
Reggio-inspired
Unschooling
These are my results not sure what any truly are but it’s what I got
Score for Charlotte Mason: 3
Score for Classical Education: 6
Score for Montessori Education: 16
Score for Project-Based Learning: 11
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 10
Score for Traditional Education: 9
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 10
Score for Unschooling Approach: 9
Score for Waldorf Education: 14
My top 3 scores are:-
Score for Charlotte Mason: 18
Score for Reggio-Inspired:18
Score for Traditional Education: 21
But I feel you missed a very Important point in the quiz, “ Do you want Faith /Religion based study?”
Because I am looking for a non religious one.
Top 3: Unit studies, project based, charlotte Mason. Which is pretty much how we homeschool!
So I think there is a reason we started homeschooling lol traditional education got a -14 😳🤣 my tops are unit studies and unschooling scoring the same and then Charlotte mason and Montessori close together. Which does not surprise me at all. We end up being eclectic in our approach. This will be our 11th year homeschooling.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 11
Score for Classical Education: 3
Score for Montessori Education: 12
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:8
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: -4
Score for Traditional Education: -14
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 17
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
Mine were:
Score for Charlotte Mason: 25
Score for Classical Education: 0
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 13
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 0
Score for Traditional Education: -5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 5
Score for Unschooling Approach: 23
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
We are Unschooling this year and I agree with my results.
So looking at the scores below I am as confused as ever…lol… I know structure is indeed what my child needs I also want the creativity and the freedom in areas like Montessori. He is bored quickly and is easily addicted to screen time and other items Guess I am going to have to go individually and look these up for a deeper understanding through out the summer to make a real decision was hoping this would give me the cut and dried answer.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 12
Score for Classical Education: 9
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 3
Score for Reggio-Inspired:12
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 9
Score for Traditional Education: 15
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 15
Score for Unschooling Approach: 6
Score for Waldorf Education: 6
This is our first year and my grand girl is in 6th Grade heading for 7th Grade. I am not familiar with some of these styles and will be busy learning about these. We scored high in Thomas Jefferson, Charlotte Mason and Montessori. Is anyone here familiar with Thomas Jefferson style? I’d appreciate any feedback. Thanks!
Score for Charlotte Mason: 19
Score for Classical Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 19
Score for Project-Based Learning: 11
Score for Reggio-Inspired:15
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 23
Score for Traditional Education: -3
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 13
Score for Waldorf Education: 10
Score for Charlotte Mason: 17
Score for Classical Education: 14
Score for Montessori Education: 8
Score for Project-Based Learning: 5
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: -5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 3
Score for Unschooling Approach: 12
Score for Waldorf Education: 6
I know a lot of my more strict, or regimental scores here are because I have a husband and children who want to see progress and structure. They are not indicative of what I personally think is best for learning. I intentionally filled out my test according to what I’m having to do now, with a little mix of what I strongly believe, just to see what it came out as. Not as bad as I thought, but not nearly what I thought it would be. Ah well, learning will happen regardless, even if its not as free spirited as I’d like. 🙂
Score for Charlotte Mason: 3
Score for Classical Education: 9
Score for Montessori Education: 8
Score for Project-Based Learning: 6
Score for Reggio-Inspired:6
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 3
Score for Traditional Education: 0
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 6
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
I have no idea what any of these mean but at least now I know what to start researching!
My top three at 21 each were Charlotte Mason, Project based and Reggio. Very interesting.
Classical Education, Reggio-Inspired and Unit Studies Approach are my top three.
The following are my results.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 18
Score for Classical Education: 19
Score for Montessori Education: 21
Score for Project-Based Learning: 21
Score for Reggio-Inspired:21
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 4
Score for Traditional Education: 5
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 25
Score for Unschooling Approach: 23
Score for Waldorf Education: 12
The highest are the unschooling and unit studies (thematic approach arre the highest. I believe that learning is experimental and experiential therefore I believe in learning anywhere, anytime with the resources available whatever they may be. I also love the Montessori and Project Based approach. The use of the senses and learning by doing are my favourite and use them wherever possible. Thanks for the quiz.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 25
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 25
Score for Classical Education: 23
Score for Montessori Education: 23
Score for Project-Based Learning: 20
Score for Reggio-Inspired:20
Score for Unschooling Approach: 20
Those are my top 3 and while I am not that familiar with Thomas Jefferson Ed and Reggio Inspired learning, the other principles is a good fit to what we’re trying to working on at the moment. I’d love to do some more research to explore these learning principles.
Thanks for this quiz. Really helpful 🙂
Charlotte Mason 17, Montessori 16 (which I currently use), and Classical 15. We tend to follow the child and do a lot of practical life skills. I never heard of Charlotte Mason or Classical. Unschooling and Reggio were tied for 4th at 14.
I’ve never heard of most of these, actually.
Classical, Montessori, Unschooling scored highest, significantly higher than any others. I would say this proves how truly eclectic our studies really have become over the course of my 22 years as a home educator, with each of these philosophies being so different from one another. I have to admit I was a little sad that Charlotte Mason did not rank highest for me because I truly admire her philosophy of education. But it is refreshing to think how well-rounded we are in our approach to developing the whole child.
Charlotte Mason 17
Riggio 17
Unit Studies 17
I have no idea what Riggio is though.
charlotte mason/unit studies/montessori
My 2 biggest gripes for traditional school was the calendar (August 1 through Memorial Day weekend) and the absolute mess they teach in a public school. Now that we are homeschooling with an extremely popular curriculum my biggest gripe is the work load! They are in 2nd & 3rd…I don’t want to sit at the table with them for 8 hours or 6 or even 4 hours. Let’s get up, move around, put the pencils down and DO SOMETHING. It’s funny how my idea of education is shifting as they get older. We are going to have fun exploring this world of homeschool…and education, together.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 12
Score for Classical Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 6
Score for Reggio-Inspired:6
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: 9
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 3
Score for Waldorf Education: 9
I have two 7-year-olds right now. I wonder if these results may change as they get older.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 17
Score for Classical Education: 17
Score for Montessori Education: 9
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:15
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 13
Score for Traditional Education: -4
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 17
Score for Waldorf Education: 5
Score for Charlotte Mason: 16
Score for Classical Education: 18
Score for Montessori Education: 12
Score for Project-Based Learning: 11
Score for Reggio-Inspired:14
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: 6
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 19
Score for Unschooling Approach: 16
Score for Waldorf Education: 9
I feel like the 4 that scored the highest for me are on very different ends of the homeschool spectrum 😅
TOP 3:
Score for Reggio-Inspired:19
Score for Charlotte Mason: 17 & Score for Project-Based Learning: 17
I have tutored for more than 40 years a truly believe that children learn differently. What you do with one child may not work for another. I have tutored from first grade reading to college-level science, math, law, English, economics, history, etc. I structure what I teach and how I teach in on an individual student’s need and way of learning. This is one great advantage of not being in a regular classroom.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 3
Score for Classical Education: 11
Score for Montessori Education: 14
Score for Project-Based Learning: 9
Score for Reggio-Inspired:17
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 0
Score for Traditional Education: 0
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 12
Score for Unschooling Approach: 9
Score for Waldorf Education: 3
Score for Charlotte Mason: 21
Score for Classical Education: 12
Score for Montessori Education: 17
Score for Project-Based Learning: 14
Score for Reggio-Inspired:9
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 6
Score for Traditional Education: -23
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 17
Score for Unschooling Approach: 21
Score for Waldorf Education: 0
These results match well how I best learn personally. An adult now, I’m thankful I was homeschooled as a child. Though my parents were into more of a structured classroom at home type setting than I found useful or would use myself with my own children. I’m all for unschooling personally. And very glad I’ve never had anything to do with “traditional education” which if you look back further into history, is actually far from how anyone normally learned anything.
I scored 15 unschooling, 10 montessori, 8 Reggio. I wish relaxed style and religious were in this. I believe myself to have a relaxed-eclectic religious style approach. Also, I believe different things for different ages, abilities, children, and learning levels.
I had to be neutral on most questions because I was thinking, well, it depends on the child’s age, abilities, interests, my mood, my energy level, etc.
I cannot say your quiz is bad, though. It is just hard to have questions that put anyone into a certain category.
As a mom of soon to be 9 ranging in age from 21-1, I totally agree!
Charlotte Mason (Never heard of it)
Reggio-inspired
Waldorf
Classical, Reggio, Charlotte Mason
Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, Project Based were the top 3. No other scores were close. I am considering homeschooling my 5th grader and have never done this before.
My top 3 were Reggio-Inspired (19), Montessori Education (19) and Charlotte Mason (16). In that order. I’m not really sure what any of them are so now I have to go do some research to find out if the quiz was correct and what route I will end up doing. Thanks for the quiz.
My top 3 were Reggio-Inspired, Montessori Education and Charlotte Mason. In that order. I’m not really sure what any of them are so now I have to go do some research to find out if the quiz was correct and what route I will end up doing. Thanks for the quiz.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 21
Score for Montessori Education: 14
Score for Project-Based Learning: 16
Score for Reggio-Inspired:15
Score for Waldorf Education: 15
This is pretty spot on.
Tie between classical and unit studies, Charlotte Mason a relatively close second. I have…feelings about classical education as it is usually described, which is often quite different from both medieval education and Greco-Roman education (yes, they’re different), but we do incorporate some elements of all three of these, and mostly don’t incorporate elements of the philosophies that I scored low on. We are firmly in the eclectic camp; I was homeschooled myself and have Opinions.
The major components of our homeschooling approach that are missing from this analysis: I would say we are more broadly literature-based, rather than classic literature-based. (Tomorrow’s classics are being published today, and sometimes yesterday’s classics have not aged particularly gracefully.) For skill-based or sequential subjects (math, grammar, etc) I strongly favor a mastery-based approach, and especially in the younger grades, I believe multisensory methods of any type are extremely important to help understand concepts concretely and then generalize them.
I actually would love to see a quiz that plots out preferences on multiple sliding scales, instead of trying to directly match questions to philosophies: for instance, learning from a textbook vs a living book/literature vs experiences; teacher/parent-led vs student-led; reading/writing vs multisensory/project, and so on. The Myers-Briggs of curriculum, if you will. 🙂
Top 3:
Project based learning-14
Reggio inspired-14
Classical education & Waldorf -11
I feel like this is pretty accurate for my family.
Score for Charlotte Mason: 8
Score for Classical Education: 4
Score for Montessori Education: 11
Score for Project-Based Learning: 17
Score for Reggio-Inspired:11
Score for Thomas Jefferson Education: 3
Score for Traditional Education: -13
Score for Unit Studies Approach: 0
Score for Unschooling Approach: 12
Score for Waldorf Education: -1