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The Character Simulator: Why Charlotte Mason Chose Plutarch

Charlotte Mason did not choose Plutarch’s Parallel Lives because they were ancient or because they were classical. She chose them because they were true. Not factually exhaustive, but morally honest in a way that most educational materials, then and now, are not. Plutarch does not label his subjects good or bad. He shows character under…

Teaching Your Child to Find God Through Art, Nature, and Beauty

Charlotte Mason insists that “all education is divine,” because it springs from and rests upon our relation to Almighty God, and finds its culmination in “that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.”1 The idea that we are created in the imago Dei is a familiar concept…