Posts tagged #principles

Charlotte Mason challenges us not to lean too confidently on our own understanding, because human reasoning—while valuable—is imperfect and can confirm wrong ideas.

Charlotte Mason makes a clear distinction between a system of education and a method of education. A method is grounded in principles; a system offers the false promise of predictable outcomes.

The science of relations is where students form deep, meaningful relationships with knowledge—not simply acquiring information but encountering knowledge and allowing it to change us.

The very first of Charlotte Mason's twenty principles—'Children are born persons'—is the foundation upon which all of her subsequent ideas rest.