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A 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...
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System 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...
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A Prince(ss) Raised by Peasants
A child in the midst — Charlotte Mason reiterates the child’s estate by alluding to Jesus’ words to his disciples. “And He took a child and set Him in the midst of them: and when He had taken him...
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Offend Not
Charlotte Mason pointed out to us that Christ gave us a code of education. It is summed up in three commandments, and all three have a negative character, as if the chief thing required of grown-up...
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Despising 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...
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Hindering the Children
Charlotte Mason says the most fatal way someone can despise a child is to overlook and make light of his natural relationship with the Almighty God. Suffer the little children to come unto Me, says...
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Conditions of Healthy Brain Activity
Nowhere does Charlotte Mason show her love and respect for children more than in her careful and studious instructions on how to create conditions for healthy brain activity. She begins with exercise,...
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Work, 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...
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The Brain
… the brain, or some portion of the brain, becomes exhausted when any given function has been exercised too long. The child has been doing sums for some time, and is getting unaccountably stupid: take...
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Healthy 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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