This Q&A podcast episodes focuses on Charlotte Mason’s counsel for exams with many students, combining many students in one book, and what to accomplish during school breaks.
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In Memoriam: A Tribute to Charlotte Mason
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Holiday Tasks, JS Mills (PR Article)
The Savior of the World, Charlotte Mason’s seven-volume poetic rendering of the Gospels, was part of the Bible lesson in her curriculum for forms III-VI. Liz, Emily, and Nicole become the students as their guest teacher, Art Middlekauff, leads an immersion class to demonstrate how the Savior of the World was incorporated in a lesson.
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The Gospel History, C.C. James
The Saviour of the World, Charlotte Mason
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A Delectable Education, Episode 13
Art’s blog post introducing The Saviour of the World
What New Testament Bible Lessons looked like in the PNEU Upper Forms (3-6)
This week’s episode of A Delectable Education podcast reviews what Charlotte Mason had to say about Sunday school. Since many listeners write to ask about the application of Mason’s method in their church programs, we tackled the why, what and how of implementing a living
education for children outside our home.
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“That parents should make over the religious education of their children to a Sunday School is, no doubt, as indefensible as if they sent them for their meals to a table maintained by the public bounty.” (Vol. 2, p. 92)
“Nothing should do more to strengthen the bonds of family life than that the children should learn religion at the lips of their parents; and to grow up in a Church which takes constant heed of you from baptism or infancy, until, we will not say confirmation, but through manhood and womanhood, until the end, should give the right tone to corporate life.” (Vol. 2, p. 94)
Parents and Children (Volume 2), Chapter 10
Formation of Character (Volume 5), Part 3, Chapter 2
An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education (Volume 6), Book 2, Chapter 3
The Bible for School and Home, J. Paterson Smyth
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The PNEU Method in Sunday Schools, Miss Wix (PR Article)
A Letter Towards Sunday School with Charlotte Mason, Brittney McGann
Charlotte Mason included a category named “Sunday Reading” on her programmes and this week’s podcast discusses the purpose for this set-apart reading. In addition, there are plenty of suggestions for what to read, so listen for great titles and ideas for including them,
as well as check out the lists in the show notes.
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“I would suggest special books only to be given out on Sundays, and not kept in the same shelf with the other books read during the week, if possible, so as to have special associations for that day. … We want the children to have bright and happy associations with their Sunday, but at the same time we want to make the distinction between that and the other six days of the week.” (Our Children’s Play, Mrs. Hatchell)
“Novels are divisible into two classes––sensational, and, to coin a word, reflectional. Narrations of hairbreadth escapes and bold adventures need not be what I should call sensational novels; but those which appeal, with whatever apparent innocence, to those physical sensations which are the begetters of lust,––the ‘his lips met hers,’ ‘the touch of her hand thrilled him in every nerve’ sort of thing which abounds in goody-goody storybooks, set apart in many families for Sunday reading, but the complete absence of which distinguishes our best English novels.” (Vol. 5, pp. 374-75)
“What is proper food for the mind, has already been discussed but we may assume that education should make our boys and girls rich towards God.” (Vol. 6, p. 281)
Parables from Nature, Gatty
Child’s Book of Saints, Canton
Book of Golden Deeds, Yonge
Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan
The Holy War, Bunyan
The Christian Year, Keble
Ecclesiastical History, Bede
Paradise Lost, Milton
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Our Children’s Play: Their Toys and Books, Mrs. C. Hatchell (PR Article)
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For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
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The Imagination in Childhood, Charlotte Mason (Parents’ Review no. 27)
Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-Balanced Mind, E.A. Parish (Parents’ Review, no. 25)