Textbooks

There is, of course, no serious need to put up an elaborated curriculum on general knowledge for our school children. In fact, rather than wasting effort of making our own textbooks, there are no short of excellent books that we often use for leisure reading but are very suitable for our children.

For example:

• novels of Jin Yong (金庸), for Chinese literature and a bit of history
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms, for Chinese literature and a bit of history
• novels of Harry Potter, for English literature
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, for English literature 
• A Brief History of Time, for natural science
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, for natural and biological science
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, for psychology and inter-personal relationship
• Sophie's World, for philosophy
• Freakonomics, for economics
• The World Is Flat, for globalization
• Collapse, for history and environment protection

And, as to the teaching of arithmetic, investment, and possibly inter-personal relationship, I believe it would more fruitful by playing Monopoly - or, simply, mahjong!