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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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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Habits as capital
My Living Education Lessons – Season 5 are digging deep into habits and it is amazing to see what a…
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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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Plutarch, Polio, and Philopoemen
Morning lessons at TBG/The Hive I have mentioned that in 2010 on the way to L’Harmas in Canada, I had…
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Brush Up Your Plutarch!
The Girl in the Hammock by Talmage Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. – Plutarch Summer is finally here…
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On Teaching Homer’s Odyssey
The father of Plutarch had him learn his Homer that he might get heroic ideas of life. Had…
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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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Plutarch Primer, Part II
Blackie edition, North’s translation – these are most often recommended in the PNEU programmes (actual sweet size) If you haven’t…
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Plutarch Primer, Part I
image from Parallel Lives, Amyot translation 1565 “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to…
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