Yesterday I had the privilege of conducting a “conversation” at the l’HaRMaS Charlotte Mason gathering in Canada. My topic was “Charlotte Mason’s Tabernacle.” When describing the human person, Charlotte Mason employed an analogy to the Old Testament “tabernacle in the wilderness.” In my conversation, we explored how this analogy helps us better understand certain themes …
“How many such instances occur in History, where the Ideas of Nature (presented to chosen minds by a Higher Power than Nature herself) suddenly unfold, as it were, in prophetic succession, systematic views destined to produce the most important revolutions in the state of Man!”[1] – S.T. Coleridge “Should the reader … be convinced of …
The stated goal of classical education theorists is to recover the tradition of classical education and apply it to the contemporary context. Some people suggest that Charlotte Mason was herself a classical education theorist. They say that Mason intentionally linked her ideas with the ideas of the classical past and brought them forward to her …