The study of Plutarch's lives is a distinctive part of a Charlotte Mason curriculum.

But why did she insist on reading these verbose biographies of ancient Greek and Roman leaders?

Today we'll discuss the principles of the subject of citizenship and learn why Plutarch is relevant for today's students.

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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.

We hope you've had a wonderful holiday break and enjoyed the conference talks from Morgan

and Kathy that we've shared over our break. As we continue our

series through a Charlotte Mason curriculum, we hope you're reading along with us and deepening

your understanding of the Charlotte Mason method. And you can find a reading schedule to keep up

with us on our show notes. This month, we're turning our attention to citizenship, a subject that Charlotte

Mason believed was crucial to developing our children's moral imagination. So we thought we would

take some time at the beginning of our series to talk about why citizenship is so important.

It's placed in the whole curriculum, you know, as a whole.

Well, Charlotte Mason believed that citizenship as a subject was crucial to developing a child's

moral compass. In fact, her ultimate goal for education was for a child to grow up to be a

magnanimous or generous-hearted citizen of his own country and beyond,

to see his purpose not to live for himself, but to serve God and his neighbor. Essentially,

that's what it means to be a good citizen in her definition. So students begin to get their ideas of citizenship from many of their lessons in form one.

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