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Jane Healy

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Five Quick Takes on Winners, Taking a Short Break, and MORE!

:: 1 :: The winners of the Third Day Naturals Bug Mist giveaway are Katherine Kirkpatrick and Patty Wheeler! Congratulations to both of you! You will be contact shortly by email {if you haven’t been already}, and you’ll need to give you mailing address so that your package can be shipped to you. A big thank you to Third Day Naturals for doing this giveaway! Also, if any of you want some Bug Mist of your own {I’m getting some Continue Reading…
May 13, 2016
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy
Possibility, Not Heredity

In Start Here, we spend some time on Charlotte Mason’s second principle of education, which is her most controversial (in Protestant circles, at least): [Children] are not born either good or bad, but with possibilities for good and for evil. I am going to skip over some of the difficulties of interpreting this principle, having already discussed it before. Once, when I sent out an email preparing a book group for discussion of this principle, I included this disclaimer note: In Continue Reading…
June 4, 2013
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
All Education is Self-Education

Charlotte Mason said this, you know. No, really. She did! But Miss Mason obviously wasn’t an unschooler, nor was she one to promote purely experiential learning. She believed in and trained teachers, and she built her curriculum around real books. So why would she say this? Why would she say: No one knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a Continue Reading…
May 29, 2013
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Jane Healy and Charlotte Mason

For a number of years, I kept hearing that the AmblesideOnline Advisory really liked this book called Endangered Minds. So I put it on my wishlist and forgot about it. Until I got a match, of course, and then the book arrived. I happened to be in a reading slump at the time, and so I picked it up to see if it could cure me. Needless to say, I can see why they appreciate the book! Chock full of Continue Reading…
May 23, 2013