High School at Home with Charlotte Mason

source: https://charlottemasonpoetry.org/high-school-at-home-with-charlotte-mason/

Many homeschoolers are inspired by Charlotte Mason's emphasis on nature study, living books, and narration. However, it can be difficult to envision what this emphasis would look like in high school. Does the Charlotte Mason method lose its distinctive features when teaching older teens? Or do Mason's ideas have a unique application in the final years of homeschool?

These questions were on the minds of the Life-giving Motherhood community when I spoke to them in August. Drawing from my research about Charlotte Mason and the PNEU, as well as from my personal experience with two graduates, I shared my perspective on high school at home with the Charlotte Mason method. In my talk I emphasized that the distinctive features of the method don't fade in these final years; rather, they glow ever brighter. You can hear the live recording here:

Life-giving Motherhood is a community of Gospel-reliant moms, intent on being disciples and disciplers of Christ, who have united to answer the call of raising up the next generation in accordance with God's Word, by cultivating the spiritual disciplines lived out by Christ, and by replacing unproductive habits with life-giving, productivity-boosting habits. They will be opening their doors for new moms to join from November 1 to 10 this year.

The Parents' Union in a Secondary School

E. Perceval Horsey describes the implementation of the Charlotte Mason method in a secondary school for boys in this vintage article from 1924.

The History of an Idea: Children Are Born Persons

Art Middlekauff surveys how Charlotte Mason's first principle was viewed in the centuries before and the century after Miss Mason's life.

The First Steps of Education

Rhoda Harrison explains how Charlotte Mason's ideas guide and inspire the first steps of education in this vintage article from 1936.

What Is Education?

Essex Cholmondeley explains the essential features of a Charlotte Mason education in this vintage text from 1925.

Where Virtue is the Goal

What does it really look like when virtue is the goal of education? Is virtue really the highest aim of Christian education?

The Parents' Union in a Secondary School

The History of an Idea: Children Are Born Persons

The First Steps of Education

What Is Education?

Where Virtue is the Goal

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