Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“We all stir out minds into action the better if there is an implied ‘must’ in the background; for children in class the ‘must’ acts through the certainty that they will be required to narrate or write from what they have read with no opportunity of ‘looking up,’ or other devices of the idle.” —Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character

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Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“Education in morals the young people must get at home, or not at all. The chief of their duties is the duty they owe to their parents: from this stem, all other duties, to kindred, commonwealth, and neighbours, branch out.” —Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

The post Charlotte Mason’s Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character appeared first on Classical Education Books.

Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“Humility is perhaps one with Simplicity, and does not allow us to think of ourselves at all, ill or well. That is why a child is humble. The thought of self does not come to him at all; when it does, he falls from his child estate and becomes what we call self-conscious.”—Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

The post Charlotte Mason’s Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves appeared first on Classical Education Books.

Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships . . . try in one subject or another to let the children work upon living ideas. In this field small efforts are honoured with great rewards.”—Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

The post Charlotte Mason’s Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education appeared first on Classical Education Books.

Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. His character . . . is original disposition, modified, directed, expanded by education; by circumstances; later, by self-control and self-culture; above all, by the supreme agency of the Holy Ghost.”—Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 1: Home Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education

The post Charlotte Mason’s Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children appeared first on Classical Education Books.

Now you can read Charlotte Mason’s original writings with confidence. This study edition of the Original Home Schooling Series presents:

• Authorized page replicas of the complete text as originally published, so you can be sure every word is authentic and accurate
• Keeps the original page numbers, so you can easily look up favorite quotations and cited references—great for study groups
• Enlarged text (28% larger), meticulously restored for ease of reading
• Wide margins for note-taking, so you have plenty of room to document your growth as you study her rich and practical ideas
• 8.5″ x 11″ page size, so your book will lie open more easily

“The work which is of most importance to society is the bringing-up and instruction of the children—more than anything [it is] the home influences brought to bear upon the child that determines the character and career of the future man or woman.”—Charlotte Mason

“Teachers owe much to Charlotte Mason’s deep insight into child psychology and to the new principles in character building and mind training which she advocated. The gratitude of [those] who have profited by her counsel will be her enduring memorial.”—Elizabeth R., Her Majesty the Queen Mother of England

Companion Books in Series:

Original Home Schooling Series Volume 2: Parents and Children 
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 3: School Education
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 4: Ourselves
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 5: Formation of Character
Original Home Schooling Series Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education 

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Thousands of parents and teachers have already used the detailed book lists and methods described in The Well-Trained Mind to create a truly superior education for the children in their care. This extensively revised fourth edition contains completely updated curricula and book lists, links to an entirely new set of online resources, new material on teaching children with learning challenges, cutting-edge math and sciences recommendations, answers to common questions about home education, and advice on practical matters such as standardized testing, working with your local school board, designing a high-school program, preparing transcripts, and applying to colleges.

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