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It has been a long time since I’ve sent out an update, because it has been a good while since I updated anything! I spent several months away from home this year, and while I was traveling, I really...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #1–Introduction
I’m going to attempt an actual, planned series of blog posts, scheduled to be posted at regular intervals. If you’re wondering whether or not I’ll be able to follow through with that, well…so am I. But...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #2–Eternal things
One of the hardest things to decide about this series is the order in which to present topics. I’m still not sure, but I think I will continue in this post to look at a few broad principles that...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #3–Mind and Body
Today’s topic is not something that Charlotte Mason and Comenius share exclusively, but is rather one of those things they hold in common with some of the most ancient educators. The physical health...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #4–Synthetic Thinking
As you can imagine, it was difficult not to make this the first thing I wrote about, just because the topic is so interesting to me. But there were other foundational principles I thought should come...
View ArticleBlog series underway
As promised, I have been blogging about the similarities between Charlotte Mason and 17th-century educator John Amos Comenius. There have been four installments so far, and four more are planned. I’ve...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #5–Narration
This discussion is especially interesting, because narration is quintessentially associated with Charlotte Mason (and rightly so). For the sake of space (because this is a blog post), I have to assume...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #6–Nature Study
This is another one of those interesting intersections. The hardcore scholastic branch of educators paid almost no attention to the natural world as it is. If they thought about it at all…they thought...
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #7–Will and Reason
In this next-to-last post in this series, I am excited to turn our attention to one of those more obscure bits of educational philosophy, and that is the role of education in training a child’s will....
View ArticleCharlotte Mason and Comenius #8–Conclusion
Now that it’s finished, I feel that this blog series went by in a hurry, but this is the 8th post in as many weeks, and it’s time for me to wrap this up and move on to other projects. While reading The...
View ArticleBooks and Reading 2016
Don’t you love end-of-year recaps of what other people have been reading? I do! That’s why I’m sharing mine. I used to be a book-blogger wanna-be, but I abandoned that idea. I’m too indifferent a...
View ArticleA few more Comenius thoughts…
I mentioned some time ago that I had one more thing to share about Comenius, and this book, Education That Is Christian, is what I had in mind. Lois LeBar worked at Wheaton College for many years, and...
View ArticleUpdate, January 2017
Well, it’s a new year, and I hope it will bring, among other things, the announcement I’ve been wanting to make for months. In the meantime, the initial Spanish translation of Mind to Mind has been...
View ArticleEducation is the Science of Relations
Charlotte Mason’s 12th principle of education is “Education is the Science of Relations.” You really have to think about it. Science. Of Relations? Relations don’t seem all that scientific, really–more...
View ArticleThe Spirit and the Letter of a Charlotte Mason Education
Parents are persons. That’s not one of Charlotte Mason’s 20 principles of education, but it is implied in the first principle, because if children are born persons, and they grow up to be parents, they...
View ArticleMany Irons in the Fire
It’s been a while since I sent out an update (I did promise they’d be infrequent and I wouldn’t be bombarding your inbox!). However, I wanted to let you all know about a few things I’ve done so far...
View ArticleThe Quote and The Context
There’s a quote from Charlotte Mason that I like a lot. I’ve been aware of it for a long, long time, and it has underpinned my own homeschooling efforts. This is the quote: The reader will say with...
View ArticleSome Practices are Principles—Part 1
I’ve written a bit about principles recently (here and here) because it’s so easy to get caught up in the “what” and the “how” of our day-to-day educational endeavors that we lose touch with that...
View ArticleBlog series this week!
In spite of genuine concern that I might actually be mistaken for a faithful blogger, I have written a whole series–five posts!–which is going up this week, one new post each day, beginning today. I’ve...
View ArticleSome Practices are Principles—Part 2
I know I pointed out yesterday that principles 13-15 are the “practical” ones added to the original more abstract principles, but before we dive into those, we need to back up to number 12: Education...
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