Recently, I was driving to an appointment in a town about an hour away from my house, and

I came to a fork in the road.

Now my mapping app said to take the road to the right, but the person in the car with

me said to take the road to the left.

It was a decision point.

I decided to take the road to the right and follow the mapping directions.

It got us to the town, but where we arrived looked much different from the other part of

town where that person had arrived on a previous trip, taking that road to the left.

That fork in the road reminds me of a decision point we all face as homeschoolers.

There are several different paths of thought about how to educate your child.

It's a big decision to choose one.

I'll venture to say that the majority of the paths will get you to your

ultimate destination. They will give your child some kind of education, but what it looks like

when you arrive at the end of your chosen path is going to look different from other paths.

In other words, you can't choose path A and expect

to see the results of path B. It doesn't work that way. So how do you choose a path? Charlotte

Mason gave us three key questions to ask about any educational path of thought, any educational

philosophy. These three questions will help you determine which way to go at the Fork

in the Road.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

To begin to understand the differences and similarities between homeschooling paths of thought,

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