Home Education Series Vol. I: Home Education


This is the first volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: The Education of Children under Nine Years of Age. The series is used today by many homeschoolers around the globe and is considered a classic reference by the founder of the homeschooling movement. Volume 1 of 6. - Summary by rachelrw (11 hr 50 min)

Chapters

Preface to the Home Education Series
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Part 1: Some Preliminary Considerations
Part 1 Chapter 1: A Method of Education
Part 1 Chapter 2: The Child's Estate
Part 1 Chapter 3: Offending the Children
Part 1 Chapter 4: Despising the Children
Part 1 Chapter 5: Hindering the Children
Part 1 Chapter 6: Conditions of Healthy Brain-Activity
Part 1 Chapter 7: 'The Reign of Law' in Education
Part 2 Chapter 1: A Growing Time
Part 2 Chapter 2: 'Sight-Seeing'
Part 2 Chapter 3: 'Picture-Painting'
Part 2 Chapter 4: Flowers and Trees
Part 2 Chapter 5: 'Living Creatures'
Part 2 Chapter 6: Field-Lore and Naturalists' Books
Part 2 Chapter 7: The Child gets Knowledge by Means of His Senses
Part 2 Chapter 8: The Child Should be Made Familiar with Natural Objects
Part 2 Chapter 9: Out-of-Door Geography
Part 2 Chapter 10: The Child and Mother Nature
Part 2 Chapter 11: Out-of-Door Games
Part 2 Chapter 12: Walks in Bad Weather
Part 2 Chapter 13: 'Red Indian' Life
Part 2 Chapter 14: The Children Require Country Air
Part 3 Chapter 1: Education Based Upon Natural Law
Part 3 Chapter 2: Children Have no Self-Compelling Power
Part 3 Chapter 3: What is 'Nature'
Part 3 Chapter 4: Habit May Supplant 'Nature'
Part 3 Chapter 5: The Laying Down of Lines of Habit
Part 3 Chapter 6: The Physiology of Habit
Part 3 Chapter 7: The Forming of a Habit---'Shut the Door After You'
Part 3 Chapter 8: Infant 'Habits'
Part 3 Chapter 9: Physical Exercises
Part 4: Some Habits of Mind---Some Moral Habits
Part 4 Chapter 1: The Habit of Attention
Part 4 Chapter 2: The Habits of Application, Etc.
Part 4 Chapter 3: The Habit of Thinking
Part 4 Chapter 4: The Habit of Imagining
Part 4 Chapter 5: The Habit of Remembering
Part 4 Chapter 6: The Habit of Perfect Execution
Part 4 Chapter 7: Some Moral Habits
Part 4 Chapter 8: Truthfulness, Etc.
Part 5 Chapter 1: The Matter and Method of Lessons
Part 5 Chapter 2: The Kindergarten as a Place of Education
Part 5 Chapter 3: Further Considerations of the Kindergarten
Part 5 Chapter 4: Reading
Part 5 Chapter 5: The First Reading Lesson
Part 5 Chapter 6: Reading by Sight and by Sound
Part 5 Chapter 7: Recitation
Part 5 Chapter 8: Reading for Older Children
Part 5 Chapter 9: The Art of Narrating
Part 5 Chapter 10: Writing
Part 5 Chapter 11: Transcription
Part 5 Chapter 12: Spelling and Dictation
Part 5 Chapter 13: Composition
Part 5 Chapter 14: Bible Lessons
Part 5 Chapter 15: Arithmetic
Part 5 Chapter 16: Natural Philosophy
Part 5 Chapter 17: Geography
Part 5 Chapter 18: History
Part 5 Chapter 19: Grammar
Part 5 Chapter 20: French
Part 5 Chapter 21: Pictorial Art, Etc.
Part 6 Chapter 1: The Will
Part 6 Chapter 2: The Conscience
Part 6 Chapter 3: The Divine Life in the Child