While CM may not quite call this a ‘fit incantation’, it still does seem to confirm Arthur Burrell’s point, as quoted in CM’s Vol. 1, p. 222 – 223: “There is hardly any ‘subject’ so educative and so elevating as that which Mr Burrell has happily described as ‘The Children’s Art.’ All children have it in […]
Our 3yo and The Children’s Art Read More »
Welcome to the May 20th, 2014 Edition of the Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival! This is the carnival’s second month on the theme “A Master Thought“. You can find the first at Dewey’s Treehouse here. In this section, we find Charlotte Mason making a distinction between teaching good habits, both intellectual and moral, and the extreme of
Charlotte Mason Blog Carnival – May 20, 2014 Read More »
After a recent trip to the Spotlight Awards where a handful of phenomenally talented kids, out of countless thousands, win prestigious awards and scholarships, one of my children the following morning, observing the flowers blooming out front, said: Superstars are like Morning Glories, they bloom for one morning.Sunflowers are like God, they’re eternal. That was
Sunflowers like God Read More »
This is a really inspiring description from the April 1923 L’Umile Pianta of what one “H.E. Wix” described as the distinguishing points of Charlotte Mason’s elementary schools: What is it that distinguishes P.N.E.U. Elementary Schools from the ordinary School? It is a difficult question to answer, primarily because the “ordinary school” is indefinable. Many persons think
They live closer to life Read More »