"'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
You can read the Wikipedia article, War in the Vendee, to get a general overview of the event depicted in the film. This would make an outstanding suppliment to a study of the French Revolution, but why wait to enjoy something this good?
Catholic homeschooling mom, physician assistant working 20+ years in emergency medicine, online instructor for Homeschool Connections, former paramedic and human biology lab instructor.
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