How do we know if someone is "educated"? And are there steady processes/ pedagogy that can help us reach this goal? Here are some perspectives from British Educator, Charlotte Mason

1. A CM Education

2. “And these words that I command you
today shall be on your heart.You shall
teach them diligently to your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in
your house, and when you walk by the
way, and when you lie down,
and when you rise.”
(Deut 6:7)
Is there an alternative
to a public school education?

3. “A river never rises
above its source”
Curriculum
to Philosophy

4. Charlotte Mason
British Educator
(1 January 1842 – 16 January 1923)

5. Re-Discovery
of CM

6. Children are born
persons…
"A child is a person in whom all
possibilities are present - present now at
this very moment - not to be educed after
many years and efforts manifold on the
part of the educator.” CM

7. “Children are
born persons…”
“Education is not the
filling of a bucket,
but the lighting of a fire.”
- Yeats

8. “Education is an
atmosphere,
a discipline and a life”

9. Education is an
atmosphere
“How shall these indefinite ideas …are held in that
thought-environment which surrounds the child as an
atmosphere, which he breathes as his breath of life; and
this atmosphere in which the child inspires his
unconscious ideas of right living emanates from his
parents. Every look of gentleness and tone of reverence,
every word of kindness and act of help, passes into the
thought-environment, the very atmosphere which the child
breathes; he does not think of these things, may never
think of them, but all his life long they excite that 'vague
appetency towards something' out of which most of his
actions spring.” CM vol. 2 pg. 37

10. Education is a
discipline
(habit formation)
If we fail to ease life by laying down
habits of right thinking and right acting,
habits of wrong thinking and wrong
acting fix themselves of their own
accord.
We avoid decision and indecision
brings its own delays, ‘and days are lost
lamenting o’er lost days.’
CM Vol. 6, book 1, chap. 6, pg. 101

11. Education is a
discipline
Foundational Habit
Obedience (Immediately, Fully, Joyfully)
"The mother's great stronghold is in the habit of obedience. If
she begin by requiring that her children always obey her, why,
they will always do so as a matter of course; but let them once get
the thin end of the wedge in, let them discover that they can do
otherwise than obey, and a woeful struggle begins, which
commonly ends in the children doing that which is right in their
own eyes.This is the sort of thing which is fatal.”

12. Education is a
discipline
Habit Formation Process
Playing Games
Training/ Correction
Consistency

13. Disclaimer
Not a standard but a direction!

14. Education is a
discipline
Habit Formation:
Narration

15. Education is
a life
(living ideas)
“The way to a mind is a quite direct way.
Mind must come into contact with mind
through the medium of ideas. “
CM,Volume 6, Chapter 2
“We rarely use text-books…but confine
ourselves as far as possible to works with the
imaginative grasp, the touch of originality,
which distinguish a book from a text-book.”
CM

16. Education is
a life
What makes a book, “Living”?
It inspires and moves us
It has the germ/seed of ideas
It is often told firsthand with passion
It coheres to real life

17. Q & A

18. Towards a CM Education
“The question is not, -- how much does
the youth know? when he has finished
his education -- but how much does he
care? and about how many orders of
things does he care? In fact, how large is
the room in which he finds his feet set?
and, therefore, how full is the life he has
before him?” CM

19. Towards a CM Education
A+ is a community that exists to educate
the whole child by
- teaching them to become lifelong learners
- nurturing in them a care for the world and
- helping them discover their purpose in life.

20. Learning Centre
Towards a CM Education