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Lately I’ve been telling, anyone who would listen, that public schools are horrible. In fact, quoting me, here is what I keep saying: “If you truly love your kids, get them out of the filthy government indoctrination camps.” And I’ve mentioned how homeschooling is the best option. Recently, I came across the Charlotte Mason Homeschool method. And I’m impressed to say the least.The Charlotte Mason Homeschool curriculum includes:
- Art Instruction
- Bible
- Foreign Language
- Geography
- Good Habits
- Handicrafts
- History
- Hymn Study
- Literature
- Music Study
- Nature Study
- Picture Study
- Poetry
- Scripture Memory
- Shakespeare
Here’s the snippet of info you’ll find all over the internet when you look up the founder:
This style of homeschooling gets its name from Charlotte Mason, a British educator who lived in the late 1800 and early 1900s. The approach uses rich literature and real objects to present ideas to students through a variety of methods based on the way children naturally learn, and is designed to emphasize lifelong good habits along the way. Instead of multiple-choice worksheets, this style asks the student to retell everything he can remember from the reading or lesson. It also seeks to “spread a feast” of a wide variety of subjects throughout the school week in short-yet-focused lessons, such as art, music, nature study, and handicraft, as well as the usual academic subjects.
I like what this mom said after learning about the Charlotte Mason homeschool method:
She said to educate by faith…
is to have an understanding that God has endowed our little persons with curiosity. It is calming to realize how big a part curiosity plays in a child’s learning. It is not the only feature, but it is capable of doing the lion’s share of the teaching. When a baby reaches his tiny hand for the colorful rattle you hold out to him, he does so out of curiosity. His first steps from crawling to walking are taken out of curiosity. Throughout the day my 2-year-old grandson can be heard to ask, “Wus tha?” as he points to one object after another, inside and outside the house, for the pleasure of hearing his mother name the bird at the feeder, the rain on the windowpane, the car in the driveway. His mother is, in a sense, cooperating with curiosity. She is cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit in the child’s life.
I especially like that last line that talks about cooperating with the work of the Holy Spirit in the child’s life. If and when you cooperate with the Holy Spirit, you’re on the winner’s track.
And that is exponentially true when it comes to educating kids. Because then you’re storing up treasures in heaven, potentially. And, if nothing else, I’m making sure your kids are taught by someone who actually loves them. Not just by someone getting a paycheck who couldn’t care less about where kids go when this life is over.
If you have kids or grandkids in those filthy government indoctrination camps, that some people call public schools, I urge you and encourage you to check out the Charlotte Mason homeschool way.
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