An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for All
An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education, published in 1925 shortly after Charlotte Mason's death, is the final statement of the method she developed over decades of teaching and of training teachers at Ambleside. Its starting point is that children are born persons, with minds that feed on ideas rather than on facts reduced to drill. Mason sets out her principles that education is an atmosphere, a discipline and a life; explains the place of habit, will and reason; and makes the case for a broad curriculum drawn from living books, absorbed through narration in a child's own words. A short synopsis of her principles opens the book. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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