The Family is the Unit of the World
A generation ago, a great teacher amongst us never wearied of reiterating that in the Divine plan “the family is the unit of the nation“: not the individual, but the family. There is a great deal of...
View ArticleA Method of Education
Method implies two things– a way to an end, and step-by-step progress in that way. Further, the following of a method implies an idea, a mental image, of the end or object to be arrived at. What do you...
View ArticleSystem vs. Method
Charlotte Mason (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If a human being were a machine, education could do no more for him than to set him in action in prescribed ways, and the work of the educator would be simply...
View ArticleDespising the Children
Despise: to have a low opinion of, to undervalue However much we may delight in children, we grown-ups have far too low of an opinion of children. If the mother did not undervalue her child, would she...
View ArticleWork, Rest, and Play
Charlotte Mason says it is just as important to give the brain periods of rest as well as good, hard work for it to do. She tells of how blood rushes to the organ(s) being used. While exercising or...
View ArticleHealthy Eating and Digestion
The children are shocking spendthrifts; their endless goings and comings, their restlessness, their energy, the very wagging of their tongues, all mean expenditure of substance: the loss is not...
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