Words of Wisdom from Formation of Character, Part III
Check out Anne’s selection from part III, too. My choice for today is taken from page 205-207: let the young people feel that the happiness of home is a trust which every member of it has in charge;...
View ArticlePart IV—Sowing the Seeds
Welcome to the final week of this blog series: “He possessed nothing as a man the seed of which had not been sown in the course of his education.” This fragment, which appears in part IV of Formation...
View ArticleWhen Charlotte Mason reads a book…
Anne is diving into one of the book studies in Part IV today: Have you ever read The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy, by William Makepeace...
View ArticleHappy Valentine’s Day
Have you got a bit of the winter blues? February is a month that seems to drag on forever while we anticipate spring. From today through Saturday, the Principles at the Helm seminar is on sale for 20%...
View ArticleWords of Wisdom from Formation of Character, Part IV
This is the last excerpt I’ll be sharing in our “Take the Fifth” series, and I couldn’t resist recording the passage in which Charlotte Mason talks about synthetic and analytic learning. (Both...
View ArticleLast chat about Formation of Character
This is my final post in the “Take the Fifth” blog series. We’re saying good-bye to Formation of Character, but we do hope you got to know this volume a little better during this month-long series. If...
View ArticleIntroducing: Encore books!
This is a project I’ve had on the back burner for a while. I’ve come to realize that when it comes to blogging, I mostly enjoy doing a series to accompany a reading or studying project of my own, along...
View ArticleAnnouncing a new book!
At the recent AmblesideOnline Camp Meeting 2019 (#AOCM2019), where I was privileged to speak to 400 women about Charlotte Mason’s principles, I shared this announcement, and now I want to share it with...
View ArticleGet ready for In Vital Harmony—Coming very soon!
Educational philosophy. I know—those words don’t really inspire anyone. They sound heavy and ponderous. If someone is holding forth on the topic, we may believe that we are (probably) capable of...
View ArticleHeating up with principles
I mentioned last time that our fire-managing practices are guided by principles that we understand. Because fire burns, it has to be contained by something nonflammable. You can toss paper and scraps...
View ArticleVitalizing Principles and a special offer
I’ve been talking about natural laws, and now it’s time to talk about the natural laws that govern education. There is another word we use to describe these natural laws, and that word is principle....
View ArticlePractices are linked to Principles
Just a note–I’m going to let the sale of Principles at the Helm run through the end of the week, so there’s still time to grab it at 50% off if you want to. In the first post in this series, I...
View ArticleIn Vital Harmony for all
As I was writing In Vital Harmony, I had younger moms in mind—mothers still early in their homeschooling journeys, still thinking about how they want to teach and trying to find time to learn for...
View ArticleIn Vital Harmony now available!
I really am in awe of the privileges we enjoy thanks to technology. I wrote a book. I sent a digital copy to my editor, and she edited it and sent it back. No paper changed hands. I refined the text...
View ArticleBooks and Reading 2019
I like reading other people’s “year in review” and reading lists about this time each year, so I usually post one, too. I was looking over my post from last year, where I commented that I certainly...
View ArticleListen to Consider This as an audiobook!
I have a couple of fun things that have been percolating on the back burner, waiting for prime time, but this is probably the most exciting one. Did you know that Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the...
View ArticleConnections with Coleridge #1—A nod from Charlotte Mason
This is the first post of a blog series I have contemplated for a long time. I fear my topic is of great interest to perhaps three people, and if you are one of those three, I hope you will appreciate...
View ArticleConnections with Coleridge #2—Introducing Treatise on Method
In the first post in this series, I mentioned that Charlotte Mason quoted Coleridge in several of her books. The book from which the quotes are taken is Treatise on Method by Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
View ArticleConnections with Coleridge #3—Law and Order
Beginning with this post, we’re really going to dig into the book by Coleridge that Charlotte Mason quoted on so many occasions. The title is Treatise on Method, and in good rhetorical form, Coleridge...
View ArticleConnections with Coleridge #3.5—A Speculative Detour
So, I’ve written this whole series in advance and scheduled it to post weekly. I usually do that with these blog series so I don’t panic about deadlines. But then, I often tweak them before they go...
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