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Mythology

Home Education
31 Days of Charlotte Mason: Charlotte Mason and Mythology by Anne White

A big thank you to Anne White for tackling the topic…that no one else wanted! Ha! Anne White has homeschooled for almost two decades, but has just one seventh grader learning at home now. She is part of the AmblesideOnline Advisory, moderates the CMCanada email list, and helps lead a Christian homeschool group in southern Ontario. You can find Anne blogging at Archipelago, the official blog of the AO Advisory. One Sunday many years ago, I went out for lunch after Continue Reading…
October 29, 2013
Books & Reading, Educational Philosophy, Home Education, Other Thoughts
Why We Read Mythology

Often, when I come across a blog I haven’t read before that mentions AmblesideOnline, I notice that the curriculum is mentioned with a warning — something along the lines of “great curriculum, but uses fairy tales and/or myths.” These “warnings” are usually worded in such a way that it is assumed that the blogger and her readers all understand how awful and immoral it is to read fairy tales and myths. I have already discussed fairy tales a little. Today, Continue Reading…
October 28, 2011
Surprisingly Good

I‘ve been putting off reading A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls because {1} the cover of our copy is ugly and I am really that shallow, and {2} I’m not a huge Nathaniel Hawthorne fan, based upon a single reading of The Scarlet Letter in high school, which brings us full circle to how shallow I am. Ahem. But after finishing up our previous read-aloud, I wanted something shorter, and so this was just the ticket. Wow. And again I say: Continue Reading…
June 10, 2010
Best of Afterthoughts, Educational Philosophy
Morality, Myth, and the Imagination

Now, if we send to any publisher for his catalogue of school books,we find that it is accepted as the nature of a school-bookthat it be drained dry of living thought.It may bear the name of a thinker,but then it is the abridgment of an abridgment,and all that is left for the unhappy scholaris the dry bones of his subject denuded of soft flesh and living colour,of the stir of life and power of moving.Nothing is leftbut what Oliver Wendell Continue Reading…
July 14, 2009