The happy distinction between word memory and mind memory
A Charlotte Mason Moment: "Whatever a child or grown-up person can tell, that we may be sure he knows, and that which he cannot tell, he does not know… Now…
Strengthen narration by self-questioning what was just read!
A Charlotte Mason Moment: "Long ago, I was in the habit of hearing this axiom quoted by a philosophical old friend: - 'The mind can know nothing save what it…
Composition in the Form of Written Narration Begins by Age 10
More Than a Charlotte Mason Moment According to Charlotte Mason, composition in the form of written narration should begin by age 10. When children narrate, they tell back in their…
The method is as old as the mind of man, the distressful fact is that it has been made so little use of in general education…
A Charlotte Mason Moment: “As for all the teaching in the nature of ‘told to the children’, most children get their share of that whether in the infant school or…
Narration and the Importance of a Single Reading
A Charlotte Mason Moment “I have already spoken of the importance of a single reading. If a child is not able to narrate what he has read once, let him…
