School Education, the third volume of Charlotte Mason's
Homeschooling Series, consists of thoughts about the teaching and
curriculum of children aged 9-12, either at school or at home. She
suggests that parents should practice what she calls "masterly
inactivity"-not neglectful or permissive parenting, but simply
allowing children to work things out for themselves, do things for
themselves, learn from their own mistakes, and to have time for
free play, and space for spontaneity. Charlotte Mason education
uses "living books" instead of dry textbooks; in this book, she
discusses what kinds of books to look for in each subject, and how
to use them to teach children to love knowledge and become real
readers and lifelong learners. 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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