Written at the end of a long working life, this is Mason’s summing-up: that children are born persons, that the mind feeds on ideas rather than facts, that a great many good books beat one dull textbook, and that narration — telling back what has been read — does more than any examination. The founding text of the home-schooling movement that bears her name.
The last and clearest statement of the Charlotte Mason method. Download the free EPUB.