A Tranquil Education~My Homeschooling Blog: A New Name

Welcome to My Homeschool Blog. This blog is an extension of Heart Of A Mommy. I will be posting all of my homeschool related posts in here.

About the Charlotte Mason Philosophy

The profound influence of Charlotte Mason, a dedicated educator of young
women in Victorian England, continues to shape the lives of many contemporary
home educators. During the mid to late 1800s, Miss Charlotte Mason served as
headmistress to an “infant “ school, founded a teacher’s college for young
women, and wrote numerous books and letters on her philosophy of education. Many
parents find the reading of the six volume set entitled The
Original Homeschooling Series to be a slow but extremely valuable endeavor.
Her focus is often called “the gentle art of learning” and involves narration,
copywork, nature notebooks, music and art appreciation, and the use of “living
books.” In defining living books, Mason explains that entire works of good,
classic literature and original source documents are preferable to textbooks
which excise portions of whole books in order to shape agendas. Like John
Holt, her philosophy of education centered around a love of learning:
“nourish a child daily with loving, right, and noble ideas…which may bear fruit
in his life.” Practical advice on cultivating such love is extensive in this six
volume series.

Friday, October 10, 2008

A New Name

Well, I thought and thought of a new name for this blog yesterday. This is what I came up with. I hope it embodies the Charlotte Mason Philosophy. What do you think?