I remember the first day of school when I was a student.

It didn't matter which grade, pick any grade.

They were all pretty much the same.

The day was usually filled with finding the classroom, meeting the teacher or teachers

for that year, and then getting the stack.

You know what I mean by the stack?

Every teacher would hand out the textbook and the

workbook for that particular subject that he or she was teaching, and you would add it to

the stack that was growing, either in your little flip-top desk or in your locker. And then

the next period, you would get another textbook and workbook to add to the stack.

That's just how it was.

And those textbooks all read about the same way, like an encyclopedia article.

It gave the facts that you were supposed to use to fill in the workbook and to memorize for the test that was coming.

But, you know, I don't recall any textbook that touched my emotions or fired my imagination. Rarely did they give me any new

ideas to mull over and ponder and allow to shape who I was becoming as a person. No, those kinds of things

came from the literature books I was reading in my spare time on the side. Perhaps your

experience was like mine, and maybe that's what has drawn you, as it did me, to wanting to give your children a Charlotte

Mason education.

Let's talk a little bit about how that background might influence your thinking as you

make the transition.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. We all come to Charlotte Mason from different backgrounds. Perhaps your homeschool background has been mainly using traditional methods and materials, like textbooks and workbooks and study guides and worksheets. Now, if that's

the case, you may find that you have a tendency to think about education in certain ways.

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