April 20, 2018
With great interest, I have been reading Art Middlekauf’s ruminations on ‘What would Charlotte Mason Do?’ if she were alive today. The short answer is that […]
April 18, 2018
“Next in order to religious knowledge,” Charlotte Mason said, “history is the pivot upon which our curriculum turns.” (An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education, p. […]
April 13, 2018
Perhaps the main part of a child’s education should be concerned with the great human relationships. Vol. 3, p. 234 . . . a subject […]
April 6, 2018
I consider myself to be a Charlotte Mason enthusiast, and most of my friends share my love for all things Mason. But lately I have realized […]
April 5, 2018
“Teaching is not a technique exercised by the skilled on behalf of the unskilled. It is a sharing of the effort to know, using all that […]
March 30, 2018
I have noticed an interesting phenomenon over the last year or two–I am hungry! Charlotte Mason often compares education to a feast. She instructs us to […]
March 23, 2018
We should allow no separation to grow up between the intellectual and ‘spiritual’ life of children; but should teach them that the divine Spirit has constant […]
February 10, 2018
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” — Leo Tolstoy, opening lines of Anna Karenina Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina Principle” […]
February 4, 2018
My children have each worked their way through several nature notebooks throughout their school education, but I am still working on my original one. My first […]