When someone new to Charlotte Mason takes a look at any CM booklist for one school year, the almost guaranteed response is an eyebrow raise or a scrunched up nose, and the question, “Can they read all that in one year?” In fact, that’s exactly what a casual acquaintance said Read more…
Miss Mason says this: “Education is the Science of Relations.” What does that mean? Studying her words, in another place, Miss Mason expounds on it as follows: “that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, natural lore, Read more…
One of the most important principles in the Charlotte Mason method is the use of short lessons. The idea is that a short time allotted for certain school work teaches the child to pay close attention, because he knows that he only has this short segment with which to finish Read more…
When we talk about geography, we tend to think of drawing maps and memorizing names of countries and their capitals. The way that the Charlotte Mason method teaches geography may seem lacking, because we don’t require such memorization, but in the long-term, the child remembers the places he learned about Read more…
The Charlotte Mason method engages the child’s imagination by using plenty of living books, and the same could be said of teaching geography. Instead of having the child memorize countless meaningless names of places, reading about people who live in actual places bring them into an actual experience that makes Read more…