Home Education: Volume I of Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series
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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.
| Asin | B00LN37SSA |
| Book 1 Of 1 | The Home Education Series Part 1 of 5 |
| File Size | 667 KB |
| Isbn 13 | 978-1633841949 |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | June 10, 2015 |
| Publisher | Wilder Publications |
| Reading Age | 16 years and up |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| X Ray | Not Enabled |
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Great Book, Not Plagruizim
About the reviews that claim this is plagruizim from the amblesideonline.com website, they do not understand that the AO website links to many books, including Charlotte Mason's writings. This isn't plagruizim, but a hard copy of her letters.This is a must read for all parents, homeschooling or not. It offers great insight into the minds of children as well as their metal physical, emotional, and spiritual needs that have been at the least marginalized today, if not completely disregard for the convenience of the parent.As for typos, I've read the book three times and found none. However, I'm not an editor and read for content not necessarily grammar, though too many errors is a turn off for me as well.As for empty pages. There is one awkward empty page in the preface to my copy, but that's it. There are several blank pages at the end of the book for note taking.
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Charlotte Mason: the biggest contributor to homeschool ever!
As a homeschool graduate, and author of Homeschooling: The Bigger Picture (your conversation with a homeschool graduate) I know a thing or two about homeschooling. I also know that while things have changed a lot from the times of Charlotte Mason, the way that children learn naturally and are provided with the best "education" is not something that changes over time. This book is an excellent resource and I would highly recommend it.Personally I loved the chapter on foreign language as I studied Latin in high school. The works of Charlotte Mason are truly remarkable and a much needed education in itself.
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Homeschool old school and traditional
This was a very informative book on homeschooling and traditional ideals were presented.I found it helpful and was interesting reading.
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Inspirational
Refreshing and true - she speaks to the heart of a mother! This book shows the unchanging beauty of human (child) nature and the beautiful way in which we as homeschooling mothers should approach our most solemn task of teaching, raising, nurturing our beloved gifts from God!
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she's amazing!
so gifted, what an instructor! she has such a heart for children and incredible insight into what they need. education should be exciting, and she helps you "lay the feast" so children love learning. i'm so happy to be able to get a hold of these books. i can't understand why educators today aren't using her methods. she really helped me to understand where my kids are developmentally so i'm no longer frustrated with them not "behaving" and not paying attention.
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Fantastic ideas. Especially for the elementary years
Fantastic ideas. Especially for the elementary years. I appreciate the amount of care Mrs. Mason put into her articles.Despite being slightly outdated, the woman was much wiser than most people I know nowadays.Whether this is a rip off from some site - I don't know, but hopefully not, as this is a nice addition to our homeschooling library.
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Timeless
Although the older language & style takes some getting used to, the concepts in this book are both timeless & priceless. Would highly recommend to any parent - home schooling or not.
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Format of book is odd
So many words. 🤣🤣🤣 I opened the book and my mind said “nope”. I’ll listen to the audio book.🤣🤣
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This is pretty much just Charlotte Masons unedited original text
This is pretty much just Charlotte Masons unedited original text. It needs bearing in mind the age she lived in - for example she always refers to 'the mother' not the parent, and also we get passages in the style of 'if your children spend too long talking to servants' :) So a little selective editing is needed for the modern day. Also Christianity was a big part of her life, and much of her teaching is based around this - I've seen reviewers of other books about her style complain that they wanted something secular, but Charlotte Mason is not a secular educator. That said, the book is interesting and thought provoking and has much to offer the modern home educator in terms of inspiration. It's still very much worth a read.
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Great book bad print
Sadly disappointed in the quality of the printing. The book itself is such a great book. Charlotte Mason is amazing to read but the print is hard to read and the layout is more like a textbook with the lines being off so parts are almost illegible. It’s worth spending the money on a better printed version.
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