Ourselves, the fourth volume of Charlotte Mason's Classic
Homeschooling Series, is a character curriculum book written
directly to children. Book I, Self-Knowledge, is for elementary
school students; Book II, Self-Direction, is for older students.
Self-Knowledge discusses our human desires and appetites; the
"helpers" in our minds, such as intellect, sense of beauty,
imagination, and reason; the ways in which we feel and express love
for others, including sympathy, kindness, generosity, gratitude,
courage, loyalty, and humilty; and truth, justice, and integrity;
and ends by encourages children to develop the habit of being
useful. Self-Direction is an in-depth discussion of the conscience
and virtues such as temperance, chastity, fortitude, and prudence;
the will and self-control; and the soul and its capacities, such as
prayer, thanksgiving, faith, and praise. 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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