Course Detail
Liberty Seminar for Middle Schoolers
The Liberty Seminar for middle schoolers introduces concepts of reflective thinking. In the course, we read, listen, dialogue, and reflect the principles of a free society. Reflective thinking is the foundation of genuine, long-term learning. And your kids will have fun doing it! When your child has completed this course, they can take these skills into any area of learning to learn more deeply.
Course Overview
This is a 15 week (semester) course!* Your student will have access to weekly lessons on this website. At the end of each week, Friday mornings, all the middle school students join their Socratic coach for Zoom call. In the call, your child will be guided with reflective questions to get them thinking more deeply about the lesson for that week.
*Summer sessions available
Course Outline
This course is designed to take your child from unreflective thinking to becoming aware of the basic skills and best practices for reflective thinking. To accomplish this, there are three modules.
M1: Self-Awareness
Lessons are designed to get students to become aware of their own thinking.
- Introduction to Ideas
- Discussing Ideas You Disagree With
- Personality affects your thinking
- “The Education Vacation”
M2: Learn Inquiry
Lessons are designed to help students use inquiry to learn new things.
- Who owns you?
- “The Golden Rule”
- “The Messed Up Market”
M3: Practice Strategy
Lessons are designed to help students practice and expand their inquiry and dialogue skills
- “The Miraculous Pencil”
- “The Food Truck Fiasco”
- “The Law”
- “The Fate of the Future”
- “Their Spectacular Show Business”
- “The Search for Atlas”
- “The Creature from Jekyll Island”
- “The Road to Surfdom”
Include and Exclude
Included in the course are the tools that help build reflective thinking skills. These resources are put together into 15 self-paced audio lessons and corresponding worksheets. The bulk of the course are the Socratic-style Zoom sessions that allow us to practice these skills. And of course, we must have something to think and dialogue about, and so the course includes the reference material for that.
- 15 Self-Paced Audio Lessons + Worksheets
- 15 45-min Socratic-Style Zoom Calls
- Access to Private Slack Group – Middle Schoolers only
- A Complete Set of the Tuttle Twins books ($97 Value)
Kerry Baldwin
Founder of Mere Liberty Courses, Author, Independent Researcher, B.A. Philosophy
I’m a veteran homeschool parent and have now branched out teaching critical thought using the Socratic method and dialoguing about the principles of a free society. One of those fundamental principles is in the freedom to think, explore, and discover how the world works. I use the Socratic method as a means of discovery and self-improvement in the key skills of critical thinking.
Middle School
$297.00
/ person
- 15 Self-Paced Audio Lessons + Worksheets
- 15 45-min Socratic-Style Zoom Calls
- Access to Private Slack Group – Middle Schoolers only
- A Complete Set of the Tuttle Twins books ($97 Value)
Important Dates
- Open Registration
- TBD
- Deadline to Register
- TBD
- First Day of Class
- TBD
- Weekly Zoom Calls
- TBD
Video Brochure
Here’s more information about what you and your middle schooler can expect.
FAQs
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… can I get a discount?
A: You may request a discount of our bulk discount cost of $45, but this may not be combined with another discount offer.
If you’d like to take advantage of this please email your request to kerry@mereliberty.com to get a unique discount code.
Please keep in mind that I’ll need to verify you have the entire set of books. Your student will not be prepared if he/she doesn’t have access to the complete set.