Did you know Charlotte Mason believed that composition didn't need to be taught?

In fact, she thought we would diminish children's natural gifts by too much instruction in this subject.

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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 Cottrell and Nicole Williams. Well, Charlotte Mason

had a very unique approach to composition. She didn't think we actually needed to teach children

how to organize their thoughts or give any formal instruction in composition until the very

highest form level, so upper high school. But that does not mean that children

don't do any writing or really learn the skills needed, right? Quite the opposite. So first of all,

composition, I thought we'd just start with what is it? What do we mean when we say composition?

It's the art of communicating one's thoughts to another person,

and it's primarily through the written word. So writing our thoughts down to communicate ideas

to other people. Charlotte Mason declared composition is not an adjunct, but an integral part

of their education in every subject.

So thus, she didn't separate it out as a separate lesson until we get to form three, so

middle school.

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