S7E87: Co-ops and Charlotte Mason with April and Anna
July 4, 2024
No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it: let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal and digest at his leisure.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education
Show Summary:
We kick off this new season of The New Mason Jar with a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with homeschool friends April Weyland and Anna Whiteside
How Anna and April first found out about Charlotte Mason
How the transition to a Charlotte Mason curriculum worked for Anna
Why April decided it was time for them to leave their old coop and start using CM principles
How Anna started her own CM coop with a few more like-minded families
How April tried to keep the curriculum challenging while balancing learning difficulties
Anna’s tips on carrying over these ideas into a coop setting that isn’t strictly Charlotte Mason
But education should be a science of proportion, and any one subject that assumes undue importance does so at the expense of other subjects which a child’s mind should deal with.
