Why the focus on classics and older books?
When the Robinson family started assembling the books to be used by their family that eventually became the Robinson Curriculum, they chose literature that would both educate their children’s minds, and provide upright examples to emulate. If you read the books from Robinson Curriculum that were written in the 19th century and earlier, you can tell that they have a larger vocabulary and more varied sentence structure than much of the literature marketed to children and young adults today. When children read these classics, and steep themselves in such literature, many people have experienced that the children naturally pick up on the vocabulary and well-written sentence structures. Good literature, as most people would agree, provides the fuel for the engine of an excellent education. While reading great writing doesn’t guarantee your child will become a great writer, it does give them a wonderful vocabulary (both the words and the style) to bring richness to their writing. Another rea
