Poetry

A century ago when Prussia was shipwrecked in the Napoleonic wars it was discovered that not Napoleon but Ignorance was the formidable national enemy; a few philosophers took the matter in hand, and history, poetry, philosophy, proved the salvation of a ruined nation, because such studies make for the development Read more…

 Poetry is one of the ways that the Charlotte Mason method of homeschooling overflows with beauty. You might encounter a child educated in the CM way beautifully reciting a whole poem with emotion, and you wish your own child can do the same.  But, before you force your child to Read more…