Are you lacking confidence choosing your Charlotte Mason curriculum?

Today, we are talking about what a Charlotte Mason curriculum isn't.

Rooted in the principles Ms. Mason gave us, so we spread the feast of a living education with confidence.

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Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method.

I'm Emily Kaiser,

and I'm here with Liz Katrille and Nicole Williams. In all season, we are considering a

Charlotte Mason curriculum. And we invite you to read along with us from Chapter 10 of Volume 6.

You'll find a link to the reading schedule in the show notes.

Last week, we discussed the five principles that are the foundation, in Charlotte Mason's own

opinion, of a true Charlotte Mason curriculum. And from these, Charlotte Mason believed that

there is an inherent principle or natural law, she calls it,

that should govern the choice of our students' curriculum. So we must give them the knowledge that

is due to them. And that knowledge must be various because they are born persons with

desires to know about all kinds of things and ideas.

And education is really their building of relationships in as many directions as possible.

And that each person is capable of getting this sort of knowledge, especially when it is taken in in a literary form

and learned through narration. But Charlotte Mason had some further cautions for us about what a curriculum

is not or should not be. And first, she says it is not utilitarian. Yes. She really begins this section by

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