The beginning sections of Home Education hold some of my favorite ideas from Charlotte Mason. Here are some that catch my attention:
A mother is qualified… but this qualification isn’t one to puff us up. It is a call to humility (which she continues to expand on in the next couple of sections. I’ll come back to this when we get there because I think about it often). We have this maternal love, but it must be paired with something more. It is a paradox similar to the idea that faith without works is dead. It spurs us to do right, hard things. It wakes us up to our duties, but this waking up isn’t a singular event. Born persons, ourselves and our children, are constantly changing as we grow; therefore, this waking is perpetual. When we begin to show up in our families in this way, we grow in knowing what we’re about—and this gives this maternal love a surely path to travel.
The beginning sections of Home Education hold some of my favorite ideas from Charlotte Mason. Here are some that catch my attention:
A mother is qualified… but this qualification isn’t one to puff us up. It is a call to humility (which she continues to expand on in the next couple of sections. I’ll come back to this when we get there because I think about it often). We have this maternal love, but it must be paired with something more. It is a paradox similar to the idea that faith without works is dead. It spurs us to do right, hard things. It wakes us up to our duties, but this waking up isn’t a singular event. Born persons, ourselves and our children, are constantly changing as we grow; therefore, this waking is perpetual. When we begin to show up in our families in this way, we grow in knowing what we’re about—and this gives this maternal love a surely path to travel.