CMP Review 2024-09-10

September 10, 2024

“The whole of Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy is an affirmation of the great value of human personality. This underlies everything else and when she was stating her philosophy the first sentence was always: ‘Children are born persons.’ It is this idea that unites everything she held and taught.”

Joan Molyneux wrote these words in 1971. And then she added: “this reminder is never out-dated.”

In the sixth and final installment of her magisterial survey of the educational philosophy of Charlotte Mason, Miss Molyneux draws from such luminaries as C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton to emphasize the importance of Charlotte Mason’s first principle. And she draws from an even brighter light as she reminds us “that Christ did not say ‘I have come to form characters’ but ‘I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full’.” Read or hear it here.

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