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Moral Instruction and Training in Schools Report of an International Inquiry …
By Michael Sadler, Executive committee of the inquiry of the
United Kingdom on moral instruction and training in schools
Question:  The comparative ethical value of different school studies - Is it desirable that more practical work and manual training should be introduced into the curriculum?
Reply from Miss [...]

If you educate using Charlotte Mason’s methods of living books, nature studies, and short days, you will very well likely be familiar with her series of lecture volumes called Home Education. Here is an interesting write up I found in the Journal of Education that offers a CM contemporary review of volume 3 of her [...]

Pre-1850s - Many children are educated in private schools or in the home; grammar schools are available in many larger towns, but attendence is not forced.  Parents had the right to choose and it wasn’t questioned!
1842 - Charlotte Mason is born in England
1852 - Massachusettes declares a compulsary education law for all
Mid-1800s - McGuffey Readers [...]

 
Key Mottos:
“Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life”
“Education is the science of relations.”
Student’s Motto:
“I am, I can, I ought, I will.”
Charlotte Mason, a British educator who lived in the late 1800s, was one of the formost leaders in developing the view that all children - regardless of social status or gender - should [...]