Teaching Literature: The Failing of Common Core
Many parents are beginning to feel an unease about the Common Core’s affect on their child’s education and the unfolding… Read More
Category Archives: Educational Theories
Rhetoric: Liberating Others to Choose the Good (Part 4 in Stratford Caldecott Series)
In this (very irregular!) series, I’ve been considering Stratford Caldecott’s view of the trivium as he presents it in his… Read More
Logic: Finding Truth and Order in the Universe (Part 3 in Stratford Caldecott series)
In this third part in my series on Stratford Caldecott’s book Beauty in the Word, I’m going to look at Caldecott’s… Read More
Grammar as Remembering (Part 2 in Stratford Caldecott series)
In my first post about Stratford Caldecott’s book Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education, I stated his… Read More
Beauty in the Word: Catholicism and Charlotte Mason (A Series)
I’ve been devouring several books on education theory recently (Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education by James Taylor, Leisure: The Basis… Read More
A Catholic Mom’s Thoughts on Charlotte Masons “Way of the Will”
The way of the will and the way of reason are described by Charlotte Mason as “two guides the moral… Read More
A Catholic Mom’s Thoughts on Charlotte Mason’s “Way of Reason”
Charlotte Mason believed that the goal of education is to shepherd a child toward wisdom and virtue, toward right thinking so… Read More