Talk:Thomas Jefferson Education

message: Okay, as per previous discussions here, I've started the revision to take this from being an article about a book to being an article about an educational philosophy/methodology.  I think it should redirect from the three major book titles as well as "TJEd" and "Leadership Education", and that the title of this article should be changed from "A Thomas Jefferson Education" to "Thomas Jefferson Education".  I don't know how to do that.  Anybody? 
I'll do a little more, according to the outline previously discussed on the talk page.  Feel free to dip your oars in.... Ibinthinkin (talk) 19:14, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transformation 

message: I maintain that the use of bloggers who are not recognized authorities of note in the field on which they blog should not be used as sources for commentary on the subjecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sources#Sources. Neither Julie Smith nor Stephen Palmer (who is called, for some unspecified reason, a "TJEd Blogger") is a notable authority on education in general or homeschool in specific.  I have shown several notable sources for comments on TJEd. I do not propose we include them in the article--only that we acknowledge that no authoritative criticism on the subject of this article exists, and as such a section on commentary about TJEd is not only extraneous, but inappropriate. Unless somebody weighs in on this to the contrary, I'm planning to remove the criticisms section. Ibinthinkin (talk) 15:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you still there? 

message: This article is a merger with "A Thomas Jefferson Education".  Discussion history prior to merger is available here.
**Now in the previous sections. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:54, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Page history

message: I believe the reintroduction of the Criticisms section without discussion is inappropriate. The reasons for its removal were previously cited and undisputed here. The blog reflects an extreme minority view of TJEd. The source cited is (as noted previously) not an authority on education, not an acknowledged or notable go-to source for homeschool reviews, and cites as a primary source of her criticism against DeMille impromptu comments in a live interview that predated the TJEd books by several years. Not accurate, reliable, notable or credible. I think this article desperately needs third-party reviews of the TJEd content; this one just doesn't cut the WP muster. Somebody--anybody? Isn't there an actual book review on this that appears on a credible homeschool site? Ibinthinkin (talk) 16:13, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Undo

message: Probably a section on Classics is merited, but the content provided (which I just removed) was not TJEd-related, but a reference made by DeMille to the book, "The Healing Power of Stories" by Daniel Taylor. The author apparently deemed it to be helpful/relevant to his readers, but it's not his work, or specifically TJEd, in my opinion. Ibinthinkin (talk) 14:55, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Classics

message: I took out a couple of quotes that had no relation to the subject matter of the section where they appeared. Ibinthinkin (talk) 19:41, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotes

message: I took out the tag for sources. It sort of didn't make sense. The info in this article is just a report of what's in the books, right? the 3rd party thing makes sense when you're looking to verify what people say or think about a subject, but when you're just saying what it is, the primary source is the logical citation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.127.16.67 (talk) 15:22, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources