CMP Review 2023-08-15

August 15, 2023

What is the ultimate purpose of education? What are we trying to accomplishing in our homeschools and our schools? In the final analysis is education about “the assimilation of facts [and] the retention of information”? Is its goal to achieve “knowledge of external nature”? Or is it more about the heart than the head? Is the proper purpose of education “the habituation of the mind and body to will and act in accordance with what one knows”?

The answer to this profound question begins to take shape when with Charlotte Mason “we begin to see that education is the elected handmaid of religion.” Then the purpose of education becomes not too different from the purpose of church, and even the purpose of life. Follow the link to hear reflections on what happens when virtue is the goal.

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