Reading must be purposeful!
A Charlotte Mason Moment: “Casual reading – that is, vague reading round a subject without the effort to know – is not in much better case: if we are to…
Thinking is inseparable from reading
A Charlotte Mason Moment: “People are naturally divided into those who read and think and those who do not read or think; and the business of schools is to see…
Books alive with thought and feeling
A Charlotte Mason Moment: “Why in the world should we not give children, while they are at school, the sort of books they can live upon; books alive with thought…
The difference between intelligent reading and cramming
A Charlotte Mason Moment: “There is much difference between intelligent reading, which the pupil should do in silence, and a mere parrot-like cramming up of contents; and it is not…
Conspicuous by Absence
Heart of Dakota Tidbit: Conspicuous by Absence Did you know that in all the years that both Carrie and Julie went to school to get their degrees in teaching (both…
