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The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education by Leigh A. Bortins is a practical education book for parents, especially homeschooling families, who want to understand and apply the classical model of learning. First published in 2010, it presents classical education as a disciplined approach built around the trivium: grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric. Bortins, the founder of Classical Conversations, argues that children need a durable base of memorized knowledge, language skills, mathematical fluency, historical awareness, scientific observation, and artistic exposure before they can reason and communicate well. The book is partly a critique of modern schooling and partly a parent-oriented guide to early academic formation. Its emphasis falls most strongly on the grammar stage, when children absorb facts, vocabulary, patterns, and habits that later support analysis and expression. Rather than offering a complete scripted curriculum, it explains the purposes, priorities, and subject areas that define a home-centered classical education.