“Well, I don’t say but you may get to know about most things from books, but as for knowing the thing itself, let me be introduced by him that knew it before me!” (Volume 5, p. 123) When I began to read Charlotte Mason’s writings in early 2005, my purpose was to become a more …

“Like religion, education is nothing or it is everything — a consuming fire in the bones” (Charlotte Mason) We made the decision to homeschool when my first son was a toddler. I realized that homeschooling would require an enormous amount of time. So I counted the cost and figured out a schedule that would work for …

At the 2007 ChildLightUSA Charlotte Mason Educational Conference, on Thursday morning Amber Benton led a discussion called “A Sense of Place.” She talked about how we should know the place where we are, the place that God has called us to. She talked about the history of creeks and streams in her own area and …