Have you ever wondered how CM compares to a Classical Education? We hear so much about Classical Ed in Southern California with Classical Conversations, and the church we attend is actually a classical school during the week where some of my friends work and many of the children my kids know attend. So where does […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Voyage of Life – Youth by Thomas Cole, 1842 As we head past the transition between my reading most of the books to my oldest daughter and her reading her own school books – which happened progressively during YR4 & YR5 – I found myself a little sad at the prospect of her reading her
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Do you ever find the truths behind the Charlotte Mason method peering at you in your books through the lives of others? I do. They really aren’t her truths after all, she herself would say so; they were, and always will be, His truths. “Shelley offers us the key to education when he speaks of ‘understanding
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Here are some nature journal entries from YR6 as we attempt to transition to Special Studies this year. Whether we are doing what CM truly intended or not, is hard to know. And I sometimes have to squelch the comparison bug that peers its ugly head when I see what others are doing. But as I read
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If you aren’t familiar with Brandy’s blog Afterthoughts, head over and check out her thought provoking posts. She has a lot to say about CM and education and current events and books and the kinds of things up our alley. And she’s a fellow Californian 🙂 In fact, I may even be meeting her in
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