CMP Review 2025-02-18

February 18, 2025

The importance of imagination cannot be overstated. As Ellen Parish warned more than 100 years ago, “The power of reason without imagination tends to make us materialists and unable to understand faith.”

Charlotte Mason developed her program of instruction with an eye towards the cultivation of imagination. Miss Parish understood this and wrote that “rightly taught, every subject gives fuel to the imagination, and without imagination no subject can be rightly followed.”

But something more is needed than a well-designed curriculum. “For the right use of the programmes,” said Miss Parish, “two things are necessary—solitude and independence.”

Find out from Miss Parish herself how to cultivate imagination during lesson time, but even more importantly, how to cultivate it in the rest of life. Read or hear her article here.

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