If in a few schools the children have difficulty in narrating Plutarch’s Lives, it will almost certainly be found that…
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A Charlotte Mason Community Class For You
Charlotte Mason Inspiration and Community As the school year wraps up for many of us, let’s exercise our wills and…
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The Thoughtful Citizen: Mason’s Wisdom For Today
At the 2022 Living Education Retreat, my friend Dawn Duran presented her talk, The Thoughtful Citizen: Mason’s Wisdom For Today,…
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Citizenship in a Charlotte Mason Curriculum – Part III
Moral Development Having looked briefly at what Charlotte Mason included in her curriculum for Citizenship in Part I, followed by…
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Citizenship in a Charlotte Mason Curriculum – Part II
Magnanimity Let’s continue to look at how Charlotte Mason viewed the subject of Citizenship! In Part I, we examined the…
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Citizenship in a Charlotte Mason Curriculum – Part I
I do not remember any teaching that related to Citizenship during my school days in the late 1970s and early…
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Plutarch and Living Ideas
A Guest Post by Dawn Duran My post today about Plutarch and living ideas is not by me but by…
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A Programme for Plutarch
Charlotte Mason (1989b) derides “nice little history books for children” that are mere outlines or childish retellings (p. 278). The…
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Opinions During This Politcal Season and Always
I didn’t plan to be reading Richard III during this election season. But, since we’re here, it’s hard not to…
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Citizenship Notebook
As I was preparing for the Weekend of Living Ideas, I revisited some notes about keeping a Citizenship notebook. I…
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Humanity Unfolds Itself: Handcrafts and the Boy
First, just this quote from George MacDonald: To become able to make something is, I think, necessary to thorough development. …
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Plutarch Primer, Part III
That which is not for the interest of the whole swarm is not for the interest of a single bee….
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