Tag: living books
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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…