Home Education Series Vol. I: Home Education
Charlotte Mason
66 chapters · 11 h 50 min · English
Read by rachelrw, Hayley Azar, Lisa A., Mary Beth Shaw, Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023), Amy Bodkin and others
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This is the first volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: The Education of Children under Nine Years of Age. The series is used today by many homeschoolers around the globe and is considered a classic reference by the founder of the homeschooling movement. Volume 1 of 6. - Summary by rachelrw
Chapters
1 Preface to the Home Education Series 14 min 2 Preface to the Fourth Edition 4 min 3 Part 1: Some Preliminary Considerations 10 min 4 Part 1 Chapter 1: A Method of Education 10 min 5 Part 1 Chapter 2: The Child's Estate 5 min 6 Part 1 Chapter 3: Offending the Children 9 min 7 Part 1 Chapter 4: Despising the Children 4 min 8 Part 1 Chapter 5: Hindering the Children 3 min 9 Part 1 Chapter 6: Conditions of Healthy Brain-Activity 29 min 10 Part 1 Chapter 7: 'The Reign of Law' in Education 6 min 11 Part 2 Chapter 1: A Growing Time 7 min 12 Part 2 Chapter 2: 'Sight-Seeing' 5 min 13 Part 2 Chapter 3: 'Picture-Painting' 6 min 14 Part 2 Chapter 4: Flowers and Trees 10 min 15 Part 2 Chapter 5: 'Living Creatures' 13 min 16 Part 2 Chapter 6: Field-Lore and Naturalists' Books 6 min 17 Part 2 Chapter 7: The Child gets Knowledge by Means of His Senses 10 min 18 Part 2 Chapter 8: The Child Should be Made Familiar with Natural Objects 5 min 19 Part 2 Chapter 9: Out-of-Door Geography 12 min 20 Part 2 Chapter 10: The Child and Mother Nature 5 min 21 Part 2 Chapter 11: Out-of-Door Games 11 min 22 Part 2 Chapter 12: Walks in Bad Weather 8 min 23 Part 2 Chapter 13: 'Red Indian' Life 9 min 24 Part 2 Chapter 14: The Children Require Country Air 6 min 25 Part 3 Chapter 1: Education Based Upon Natural Law 3 min 26 Part 3 Chapter 2: Children Have no Self-Compelling Power 5 min 27 Part 3 Chapter 3: What is 'Nature' 10 min 28 Part 3 Chapter 4: Habit May Supplant 'Nature' 6 min 29 Part 3 Chapter 5: The Laying Down of Lines of Habit 8 min 30 Part 3 Chapter 6: The Physiology of Habit 13 min 31 Part 3 Chapter 7: The Forming of a Habit---'Shut the Door After You' 13 min 32 Part 3 Chapter 8: Infant 'Habits' 15 min 33 Part 3 Chapter 9: Physical Exercises 5 min 34 Part 4: Some Habits of Mind---Some Moral Habits 5 min 35 Part 4 Chapter 1: The Habit of Attention 25 min 36 Part 4 Chapter 2: The Habits of Application, Etc 2 min 37 Part 4 Chapter 3: The Habit of Thinking 3 min 38 Part 4 Chapter 4: The Habit of Imagining 6 min 39 Part 4 Chapter 5: The Habit of Remembering 10 min 40 Part 4 Chapter 6: The Habit of Perfect Execution 3 min 41 Part 4 Chapter 7: Some Moral Habits 7 min 42 Part 4 Chapter 8: Truthfulness, Etc 9 min 43 Part 5 Chapter 1: The Matter and Method of Lessons 19 min 44 Part 5 Chapter 2: The Kindergarten as a Place of Education 7 min 45 Part 5 Chapter 3: Further Considerations of the Kindergarten 36 min 46 Part 5 Chapter 4: Reading 15 min 47 Part 5 Chapter 5: The First Reading Lesson 13 min 48 Part 5 Chapter 6: Reading by Sight and by Sound 16 min 49 Part 5 Chapter 7: Recitation 10 min 50 Part 5 Chapter 8: Reading for Older Children 8 min 51 Part 5 Chapter 9: The Art of Narrating 6 min 52 Part 5 Chapter 10: Writing 9 min 53 Part 5 Chapter 11: Transcription 4 min 54 Part 5 Chapter 12: Spelling and Dictation 6 min 55 Part 5 Chapter 13: Composition 8 min 56 Part 5 Chapter 14: Bible Lessons 10 min 57 Part 5 Chapter 15: Arithmetic 22 min 58 Part 5 Chapter 16: Natural Philosophy 15 min 59 Part 5 Chapter 17: Geography 15 min 60 Part 5 Chapter 18: History 29 min 61 Part 5 Chapter 19: Grammar 11 min 62 Part 5 Chapter 20: French 13 min 63 Part 5 Chapter 21: Pictorial Art, Etc 17 min 64 Part 6 Chapter 1: The Will 22 min 65 Part 6 Chapter 2: The Conscience 22 min 66 Part 6 Chapter 3: The Divine Life in the Child 22 min
