Ourselves is my current Charlotte Mason read, and I recorded seven pages of quotes from it in my commonplace book this week! I did start to include it in our Morning Time, but it got pushed out by other things, and now I am debating whether it would be more fruitful to put it back… Continue Reading
From Ourselves, pg 31: Many great men have put their beautiful thoughts, not into books, or pictures, or buildings, but into musical score, to be sung with the voice or played on instruments, and so full are these musical compositions of the minds of their makers, that people who care for music can always tell… Continue Reading
Sometimes a personal or literary example of an abstract idea can really help us see how it works out practically. I have found Charlotte Mason’s principles of “authority and docility” and her talk about “masterly inactivity” on the part of parent or teacher hard to grasp, but recently came across a couple of examples that… Continue Reading
Here are four quotes I wrote down together in my commonplace book – I will let you make your own connections between them. 😉 Where science does not teach a child to wonder and admire it has perhaps no educative value. (Charlotte Mason, A Philosophy of Education) At the core of all science are insatiable… Continue Reading
Just a brief but challenging quote from Charlotte Mason today, as relayed by her friend Elsie Kitching in In Memoriam. Continue Reading
This passage is from Charlotte Mason’s School Education, but I think it is an encouragement – and challenge – to any parent, and perhaps especially to one (like me) who feels they have either failed in child training in the early years or have a particularly difficult child. Let us not despise the day of… Continue Reading
Here’s a quote that I’ve shared before, but was reminded of it while listening to Brandy Vencel and Karen Glass talk about Charlotte Mason History yesterday. Karen quoted it near the end of the podcast, and when I looked it up in my copy of School Education, I found I had written “Little drops of… Continue Reading
This should have been a Wednesdays with Words post, but I just didn’t get around to it yesterday. I haven’t posted one for a while, but I have been reading. Home Education is my current “teacher training” book, as I prepare and start Mr. L’s first grade year. And In Memoriam: A Tribute to Charlotte… Continue Reading
From Home Education, pg. 54: Continue Reading
Next week is our final week of the 2016-2017 school year, and then we’ll have a six-week break before starting fresh in September. Over those weeks, I hope to post our plans for 1st, 5th, 7th, and 10th grade, as well as Morning Time for the fall term. Today, I thought I would share a… Continue Reading