Understanding, or Logic, is the questioning stage. When the child is at the Understanding stage he learns to evaluate the relationships between items of information. Understanding is the investigation of theory. It is the discernment of causes, motives, means, purposes, goals, and effects. It is the skill of intelligent insight.
Understanding occurs in the mind.
It is imparted through coaching and correcting the thinking process. The child develops a vocabulary of relationships and order, of actions and abstractions. This stage develops self-discipline and moral discernment. Here are a few suggestions. The student can now be expected to read more difficult works.