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How an Idea Comes Alive in a Child's Mind
One afternoon I watched my daughter build a spear like the one Karana fashioned in Island of the Blue Dolphins. Nothing had been assigned — the story itself had stirred...
How an Idea Comes Alive in a Child's Mind
One afternoon I watched my daughter build a spear like the one Karana fashioned in Island of the Blue Dolphins. Nothing had been assigned — the story itself had stirred...
Why Do We Need Grammar in a High-Tech Age?
We live in a world where machines can complete our sentences. Autocorrect fixes spelling. Artificial intelligence drafts essays. A child can speak into a microphone and see words appear instantly...
Why Do We Need Grammar in a High-Tech Age?
We live in a world where machines can complete our sentences. Autocorrect fixes spelling. Artificial intelligence drafts essays. A child can speak into a microphone and see words appear instantly...
The Sentence Comes First...Miss Mason's Approa...
Once a child begins to form his own sentences—once he can tell what he has read, shape a thought, and set it down on paper—what comes next? It is...
The Sentence Comes First...Miss Mason's Approa...
Once a child begins to form his own sentences—once he can tell what he has read, shape a thought, and set it down on paper—what comes next? It is...
It Isn’t Any Story That Will Do
My daughter was reading The Little Peppers and How They Grew, and one afternoon I asked her what she thought of the book. “Oh, it’s lovely,” she said without hesitation....
It Isn’t Any Story That Will Do
My daughter was reading The Little Peppers and How They Grew, and one afternoon I asked her what she thought of the book. “Oh, it’s lovely,” she said without hesitation....
Living Books Form a Generous Curriculum
“The mind feeds on ideas, and therefore children should have a generous curriculum.”—Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education If the mind is fed by ideas that are offered generously, then we...
Living Books Form a Generous Curriculum
“The mind feeds on ideas, and therefore children should have a generous curriculum.”—Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education If the mind is fed by ideas that are offered generously, then we...
When Homeschooling Feels Hard
This is third in the series Fire in the Bones taken from Charlotte Mason's quote: Like religion, education is nothing or it is everything—a consuming fire in the bones. —Philosophy...
When Homeschooling Feels Hard
This is third in the series Fire in the Bones taken from Charlotte Mason's quote: Like religion, education is nothing or it is everything—a consuming fire in the bones. —Philosophy...