Tag: living books
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The Soul of Education, Part 11: Charlotte Mason and the Sacredness of Personality
In our series on “The Soul of Education,” we have been systematically exploring historical views of the soul, uncovering their impact on educational philosophy. Our modus operandi relies on an awareness of the fact that anthropology inevitably affects pedagogy: our view of what a human being is trickles down into how we propose to educate…
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The Soul of Education, Part 9: John Amos Comenius and the Soul as a Boundless Abyss
This series on historical views of the soul has demonstrated that every educational philosophy necessarily relies on a pre-existing view of the human person. Anthropology will inevitably inform pedagogy. In our last installment, we reached a dangerous crossroads in the seventeenth century with René Descartes, who performatively severed the human person into two isolated substances:…
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A Coherent and Holistic Education: Book Review of Elaine Cooper’s The Powerful and Neglected Voice of Charlotte Mason
In this series, I want to review and highlight the Charlotte Mason Centenary Series of monographs released in 2023. The 18 books in this series are brief and readable volumes that encapsulate a diverse range of topics related to the life, writings and philosophy of Charlotte Mason. My intention is to select a few of…
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Charlotte Mason and the Liberal Arts Tradition, Part 2: Educating the Whole Person
What has Charlotte Mason to do with classical education? In my first blog in this series, I began exploring this question through a close reading of Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain’s The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education. In this book, Clark and Jain offer a paradigm for understanding classical education as…