When Charlotte Mason admonishes us that we don't have the right to pick and choose which subjects to educate our children in, her primary example is Latin.

But we do not know how much we are shutting out from Tommy's range of thought besides the Latin grammar, she says.

Latin itself is a means of providing our students with

stimulating ideas. Join us today as we discuss the teaching of Latin in a Charlotte Mason education.

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Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz Cottrell. Well, we do not have a lot from Miss Mason on why she included Latin in her curriculum.

It was really just a matter of course in that day and age.

Education was virtually synonymous with classics in classic Latin languages.

Yet she does tell us that we may not reject Latin as a subject for our children,

not because of the traditional reasons that probably her fellow Brits at the time would say,

but because Latin itself is a means of living ideas. And we can't predict which of our children

are waiting to receive those ideas.

She tells us, of course, it is only now and then that a notion catches the small boy,

but when it does catch, it works wonders and does more for his education than years of grind.

And all of that is in the context of talking about Latin.

So, Nicole, let's just take a big picture look at the scope and sequence of Latin in a Charlotte

Mason education. Do we start this like French at age six? Nope, for sure or not.

Thankfully, this one, we do not do at all in form one. And even in form two, which is form two itself is grades four, five, and six, but we don't begin this until what we call form two A, which is grade five.

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