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School Education - Volume III (Hardcover)
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School Education - Volume III (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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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 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.
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