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Charlotte Mason’s Teaching Philosophy

Charlotte Mason: What I’ve pieced together so far:
(All things that appeal to me)

Formal schooling doesn’t start until age six*
No special textbooks—everything (except math, I suppose) drawn from good writing
Word-based

reading (good writers, good books, chosen to shape character)*
memorization* (giving the child something substantial to meditate on)
and narration,* early on a child’s answer to essays or composition, [...]