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Napoleonic Study Methodology: For Serious Students
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“All that I am, everything that I have been I owe to the work habits that I have acquired from my boyhood.” - Napoleon With a sense of destiny and a driving ambition Napoleon demonstrated his most important skill he acquired - that of effortful and imaginative study. This class is for serious students with serious goals who are determined to succeed. Topics Presented: Napoleon's work ethic, Napoleon's reading methodology, Napoleon's annotations, Napoleon's ruminations, Napoleon's...
The student will learn about a methodology of study. The student will learn about the importance of identifying life goals as a means of motivated study. The student will learn about time management and staying focused upon their goals. The student will learn about the concept of "Read Hard, Think Easy" The student will learn about Napoleon's approach toward reading and annotation. The student will learn how to use their imagination as a tool for mastering knowledge.
I have been a teacher for the last 30 years in both public and private school settings throughout the Atlantic region. Many of my students have attended some of the premier universities in North America (Yale, West Point, Stanford) and in the U.K. (Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh). With those students it was a matter of having approached their studies with effort and imagination; there are no gimmicks or tricks to becoming a great student - it is an innate passion for the subject and a drive to succeed.
Homework Offered
The student should read Napoleon at Work and should practice the skills discussed in class ....daily.Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
A sense of destiny and a driving ambition to succeed
Napoleon is used as the best example of an individual who by their own effort, desire, and determination was able to achieve the unimaginable. This class is not about Napoleon the soldier, it is about Napoleon the student. The theme is that effort and imagination can achieve great results, not to turn your child into a conqueror of Europe.
Oeuvres du Comte P.L. Roederer publiées par son fils A. M. Roederer, Vol. 8 (Paris, 1859), p. 494. Claude-François de Méneval, Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815, Vol. I, translated by Robert H. Sherard (London, 1895), p. 308. Official Narratives of the Campaigns of Buonaparte Since the Peace of Amiens (London, 1817), p. 7. D.A. Bingham, A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon, Vol. I (London, 1884), p. 72. Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. I (Philadelphia, 1831), pp. 269-270. Méneval, Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815, Vol. I, pp. 368-369. Oeuvres du Comte P.L. Roederer publiées par son fils A. M. Roederer, Vol. 8, pp. 488-489. Méneval, Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815, Vol. I, p. 375. Frédéric Masson, Napoleon at Home: The Daily Life of the Emperor at the Tuileries, Vol. I, translated by James E. Matthew (London, 1894), pp. 197-198. Méneval, Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815, Vol. I, pp. 370-371. Ibid., p. 371. André Pons de L’Hérault, Souvenirs et Anecdotes de l’Île d’Elbe(Paris, 1897), pp. 61-62. Méneval, Memoirs to Serve for the History of Napoleon I from 1802 to 1815, Vol. I, p. 375. Ibid., p. 376 Frederick Maitland, Narrative of the Surrender of Buonaparte (London, 1826), pp. 209-210. MOST IMPORTANTLY - Napoleon at Work by Colonel Vachee Learning and Decision-Making Theories from various sources: Gary Klein (Recognition Primed Decision-Making), John F Kihlstrom, John Boyd, U.K. Revision/Study Guides and many more.
Over the past 30 years I have taught I.G.C.S.E, A-Level, I.B., and A.P. History throughout the Atlantic region in both private and public school settings. During that time I have instructed students in a variety of rigorous exam subjects . I am a...
Group Class
$25
per classMeets once
60 min
Completed by 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
3-18 learners per class