"'Education is the Science of Relations'; that is, that a child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts: so we train him upon physical exercises, nature lore, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books, for we know that our business is not to teach him all about anything, but to help him to make valid as many as may be of––
'Those first-born affinities,
That fit our new existence to existing things.'"
Charlotte Mason, A Philosophy of Education
with a quote from The Prelude by William Wordsworth
I have put together a reading schedule for studying some Founding Fathers and the Revolutionary War. You can access the pdf schedule
here on Google Documents.
Of course you can substitute your favorites on your bookshelves or available through your library for anything that I have listed. That's the beauty of a Charlotte Mason education.
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I like the way you put your lists together. Unfortunately we won't get back to this time period for several more years. By then I think my DS will have outgrown most of these titles. :)
Christine
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