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Leadership education instructs children how to think and prepares them to be leaders in all areas of life: at home, in the community, in business, and in government.

This is the sort of education that most parents would like for their children. I know I want my children to be innovative thinkers.

When you look through history, you’ll find that most of the world’s greatest thinkers and leaders received their education from tutors and mentors at home.

As the students’ education progressed, they moved on to prep schools. Continuing through the mentor approach, they would study the classics.

Ultimately, it is the mentor system that develops leaders. Sadly, the leaders that we usually think of in America are trained to be professionals and specialists, not true leaders.

Today, our nation is mostly filled with people who would rather be followers. They either ignore or don’t even notice the system’s problems. If the next generation is going to be any better than this one, we need to teach our children to be great leaders who can make a difference.

Four important keys make up leadership education: Mentoring, classics, and time.

Students need enough time to learn, and that means they need structure. For example, an older student may need at least 5 hours of learning a day for 5 days a week.

This will allow enough time for your child to read and study. Younger students will not need so much time.

Mentors and Classics. We won’t separate these two factors of leadership education because learning how to think well is attained through discussion of the classics.

Both the mentor and the student should read the same classics. They should also both keep a journal, where they write down key ideas.

You might choose to begin the day with an hour long math lesson. You might move on to writing or having a mentor discussion for another hour. In between, you could do studying, free reading, and experimentation.

This learning style has been around for centuries, and it was the means for budding leaders to acquire necessary skills and knowledge for leadership.

For successful leadership education, your child needs a mentor he or she can read the classics with. While most of us are somewhat familiar with classics in history and literature, it’s important to remember there are classics in almost any subject.

There are even classics in science, such as Newton’s Principia Mathematics. I wouldn’t suggest starting out with this, but when the time comes to read a mathematic classic, try it out.

If you want your child to think logically and clearly, leadership education will provide the foundation. If you plan to mentor your child, you must be certain that you are a great thinker and learner yourself.