CMP Review 2024-07-23
July 23, 2024
Parents and teachers who dig into Charlotte Mason’s volumes are often surprised to discover that her students were asked to write poems. In fact, student samples of original poems are included in the volume Towards a Philosophy of Education. I have seen this lead to wonderment and even incredulity as homeschool parents have insisted that they could not write poems themselves, much less ask their children to.
Was Charlotte Mason living in a different world where persons were born with different abilities? Or does the art of poetry-making still reside in us all? René du Plessis is a homeschool mother who considered that the writing of poetry was not an anachronism but was rather an activity we can all pursue today. So she began a journey, not of instruction and training, but of discovery. Hear her story here.
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