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Karen Glass

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:: 1 :: When I mentioned my personal Latin notebook last week, I neglected to say what curriculum I was using for myself. Oops! Yes, that would have been good information to include. For my refresher course this year, I chose Getting Started with Latin, partly because it looked like I could fit a complete lesson into my 15 minute time slot, and partly because I wanted to write a review of it. I was right: the lessons fit into my Continue Reading…
March 9, 2018
Educational Philosophy, Home Education
The Habit of Thinking

This is the sort of thing that the children should go through, more or less, in every lesson — a tracing of effect from cause, or of cause from effect; a comparing of things to find out wherein they are alike, and wherein they differ; a conclusion as to causes or consequences from certain premisses.-Charlotte Mason (Vol. 1, p. 151) I ‘ve been pondering this thought of Charlotte Mason’s, that children should have what she calls the Habit of Thinking, Continue Reading…
April 25, 2017
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Music and the Poetry of Education

It is easy to hear the phrase “musical education” and assume we’re talking about piano and violin lessons, with a bit of tonic sol-fa thrown in. While this is the beginning of what is meant by music as a liberal art, music here — as something that precedes the liberal arts — means something deeper and more basic. Clark and Jain, in The Liberal Arts Tradition, call it “foundational.” To Clark and Jain, musical education is “an education in wonder”: Continue Reading…
July 22, 2015
Educational Philosophy, Mother's Education
Why Latin? More Thoughts on an Old Tongue.

A little over two years ago, I wrote out my thoughts on why we study Latin. I’m not taking it all back, but my thoughts have been refined lately. In her book Consider This, Karen Glass gives some modern, utilitarian, pragmatic reasons for studying Latin. These reasons are not classical reasons for offering a component of classical education, and Karen tells us that a true classical education hinges not just upon offering the classical content, but actually having the right motives — on having the proper Continue Reading…
April 22, 2015