Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Idealized painting by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1914 A kindness is like a flower that has bloomed upon you unawares, and to be on the watch for such flowers adds very much to our joy in other people, as well as to the happy sense of being loved and cared for. – Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4…
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For us,… whatever ’s undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done. Grief may be joy misunderstood: Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on. – from “De Profundis” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1881 A friend sent a request a while ago. Could I please address schooling using Mason’s methods when life…
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First, just this quote from George MacDonald: To become able to make something is, I think, necessary to thorough development. I would rather have a son of mine a carpenter, a watchmaker, a woodcarver, a shoemaker, a jeweler, a blacksmith, a bookbinder, than I would have him earn his bread as a clerk in a counting house. Not merely is…
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The Sower, 1850 – Millet We began a new semester of our Charlotte Mason community, Truth, Beauty, Goodness. You can see our schedule and a few new pics on the TBG page. So many good things! I hope to eventually share those things with you. Meanwhile, here are some thoughts on Charlotte Mason’s beloved Jean-Francois Millet. Our first print to…
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“Where science does not teach a child to wonder and admire it has perhaps no educative value.” – Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, p. 224 the fairy ring! The outdoor columnist for our local paper, Ron Kuecker, wrote about his sighting of a fairy ring north of town in this week’s paper. Our wet summer and wet fall have…
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In thinking about humility, we have a former student of Mason’s and secretary of the PNEU, R.A. Pennethorne, giving us her reflection on the posture for teachers. It fits perfectly with the teachers’ motto – “For the Children’s Sake.” Here’s the full quote: “Teaching was to be a mission carrying the breath of life to God’s children…-not looking for results…
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painting by Kay Maniscalco (rather Barbara Cooney-esque, don’t you think?) Quite often I get the question, “Could you explain the meaning behind the name of your blog?” The answer to that question is always towards the bottom of my “About” page, but I thought I would revisit it here on the blog. Sage Parnassus Academy is the name of our…
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That which is not for the interest of the whole swarm is not for the interest of a single bee. – Marcus Aurelius my little Plutarch notebook On an airplane trip a few years ago I was reading Howards End is on the Landing. The distinguished gentlemen next to me struck up a conversation about literature after asking what I…
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Blackie edition, North’s translation – these are most often recommended in the PNEU programmes (actual sweet size) If you haven’t read Part I, please begin there! I will admit that Plutarch is probably our most challenging reading in our school. I should say “my” most challenging reading – not my children. They really do rise to the occasion, taking in…
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