Cet article est également disponible en français. Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. “the ‘Child a Person’ will be the very crux for our Crusade” (Mason, 1904, p. 10) The first principle of Charlotte Mason’s twenty-point synopsis reads simply: Children are born persons. (Mason, 1989f, p. xxix) Comprised of only four words, it …
Atmosphere, Discipline & Life at the Dinner Table ©2017 Anna Migeon “If the child dislike his dinner, he swallows it, but the digestion of that distasteful meal is a laborious, much-impeded process.… Hence it is not a matter of pampering them at all, but a matter of health, of due nutrition, that the children should enjoy …
©2017 Steve and Marcia Mattern Art asked us to share about how we integrate Charlotte Mason’s ideas with our Catholic faith. We initially thought it could be helpful to develop lists of citations and quotes from Catholic teachings and from Charlotte Mason, not to suggest an inorganic admixture of the two orientations, but rather to establish …
Copyright © 2017 Bonnie Buckingham A few weeks ago, Art Middlekauff and I were discussing what kind of influence Henrietta Franklin may have had on Charlotte Mason and the development of her ideas. Art knew that I had read the biography of Henrietta Franklin by Mark Gibbons, so he asked me if I would investigate this further. I …
© 2017 Jennifer Bascom Eucharist, which means thanksgiving, can take many forms. I celebrate Eucharist on Sunday mornings in the Orthodox Church, and I celebrate Eucharist as I write these words about education and how it has played a part in my own transformation. I distinctly remember a moment in 2010 that embarrasses me now. I was talking …
After a delightful time in Italy with my daughter, I had an unusually long layover in London. We decided to get on the train and pay one more visit to the Armitt to see what new secrets we could find. Due to the constraints of the layover, I realized that we would only have about …