Narration seems simple at first, but since it is an art, its actual practice raises many questions. Listen in on this lively discussion of some of the most common perplexities about the use of narration and how these moms have put the principles of Charlotte Mason to work.
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"Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child's mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not the result of any process of disciplinary education. A creative fiat calls it forth. 'Let him narrate'; and the child narrates, fluently, copiously, in ordered sequence, with fit and graphic details, with a just choice of words, without verbosity or tautology, so soon as he can speak with ease." (Vol. 1, p. 231)
"If a child is not able to narrate what he has read once, let him not get the notion that he may, or that he must, read it again. A look of slight regret because there is a gap in his knowledge will convict him." (Vol. 1, pp. 229-230)
"On the whole, it is more useful to be able to speak than to write, and the man or woman who is able to do the former can generally do the latter." (Vol. 3, p. 88)
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
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