Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about
the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of
nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot
of time outdoors, immersed in nature and handling natural objects
and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their
education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as
attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks with
perfect execution, obedience, and truthfulness, to replace
undesirable tendencies in children (and the adults that they grow
into). She details how lessons in various school subjects can be
done using her approach. She concludes with remarks about the Will,
the Conscience, and the Divine Life in the Child. Charlotte Mason
was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far
ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons
worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better
to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas
and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and
pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by
some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and
flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand
exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school
subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through
reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as
the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives
and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and
learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working
endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and
maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed,
not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow
students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests
such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is
firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used
successfully by secular families and families of other religions.
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