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A Quick-Start Guide For A Charlotte Mason Education

You’ve heard all the wonderful things about a Charlotte Mason education, but have no idea where to start. Her six volumes on education are intimidating, and yo You’ll learn the ...

by jessr90 • May 12, 2023May 12, 2023

Foundations, Tools

Narration + Discussion

“Children Narrate by Nature.––Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child’s mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not the result of any ...

by jessr90 • December 2, 2022July 17, 2023

Foundations, Tools

Questions

The mind can know nothing save what it can produce in the form of an answer to a question put to the mind by itself.” Charlotte Mason. Philosophy of Education, ...

by jessr90 • December 2, 2022July 17, 2023

Foundations, Tools

How to Encourage Inquiry

How to Use Questions in Daily Lessons Before reading how to use questions in daily lessons, you need to understand the why — read my previous post “Questions” before continuing. ...

by jessr90 • December 2, 2022December 13, 2022

Foundations, Tools

Real “Things”

Children Should Learn From Real Things “We older people, partly because of our mature intellect, partly because of our defective education, get most of our knowledge through the medium of ...

by jessr90 • November 30, 2022July 17, 2023

Foundations, Tools

The “Best” Books

A Charlotte Mason Education is heavily based on books. She boldly declared that “…no education seems to be worth the name which has not made children at home in the ...

by jessr90 • November 29, 2022November 29, 2022

Foundations

Self-Education

Episode #4 | Self-Education What makes Charlotte Mason’s philosophy and methods different from others? How do we nurture a love of learning in our children? What should parents look for ...

by jessr90 • November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

Foundations

Mothers Work Wonders

The relationship between mother and child is the most fascinating and beautiful of all human relationships. It’s inspired poets, artists, and authors since the beginning of time. For nine months ...

by jessr90 • November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

Foundations, Gather

Gather Together

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, as I said unto my disciples, where two or three are gathered together in my name, as touching one thing, behold, there will I ...

by jessr90 • November 2, 2022May 2, 2023

Artist Study, Subjects

Artist Study

“We cannot measure the influence that one or another artist has upon the child’s sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sights of ...

by jessr90 • October 28, 2022July 17, 2023