Charlotte Mason advice to your frequently asked questions, this time on narration with non-Mason students, required standardized state testing, and the long-awaited, "What do we do in the summer?"
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“Such prescribed reading should be a real change from ordinary school work, should be very moderate in quantity, and its quite optional character especially enforced.” (Holiday Tasks, PR)
"In this way. School work leaves so little leisure for girls or boys to be occupied with anything beyond their immediate school duties, and these become more and more absorbing as they get older. This is quite right, because the main object of school days is to enable one to become acquainted with those things which make life worth living and enable us to make the lives of others fuller and happier. But in acquiring this knowledge, there is little leisure left to think of other people, and this is a great danger in this egotistical age." (Useful Holidays, PR)
Holiday Tasks, Parents' Review Article
Useful Holidays, Parents' Review ArticleLabels: podcast