Wednesdays with Words: Self as the End and Centre

Wednesdays with Words: Self as the End and Centre

Karen Glass gets down to brass tacks in her chapter Choose You This Day, and the tacks fall right into place with what I considered about *revel* in February: Charlotte Mason’s conception of willing, or choosing, requires an object outside of self.  No effort of choice is necessary to serve self–this we do naturally, and…

Wednesdays with Words: A Drudgery Rather Than a Delight

Wednesdays with Words: A Drudgery Rather Than a Delight

Karen Glass, in Consider This, traces the idea of literature – of grammar – in the Classical Tradition from the ancient Greeks through the Victorian age. Originally, the idea of literature had meant the necessity of reading in the Classical Languages in Latin and Greek. She shows how the idea of grammar evolved and changed…

Wednesdays with Words: Precision of Utterance

Wednesdays with Words: Precision of Utterance

On Monday, we had our first CM Group meeting.  We’re using Brandy’s study guide, Start Here.  In it, she assigns readings from For the Children’s Sake and A Philosophy of Education. In For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay says some pretty profound things.  One of the first, for me so apropos, is, We have to…