From the preface of Teaching Less While Your Child Learns More... Welcome to the beginning of a wonderful adventure of home educating using Charlotte Mason’s methods, way for your child to learn and to love to learn. Contained in these pages is a compilation of articles, essays and helps—many of them to be found on our website. We have put them all in one place to help get you started. A friend of mine who is a homeschooling mother of six and uses Charlotte Mason’s methods said once, “I am very fortunate. My children’s teachers are Socrates, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Theodore Roosevelt, Emily Dickenson and many, many others.” My friend was describing the essence of a Charlotte Mason education---the teaching parent brings the best books to their child, whose sole duty is to take up and use the knowledge within their pages. This book is meant as a first-step to show you how your child can use living books as means of self-education. I encourage you to spend time learning more about Charlotte Mason education by visiting our website, reading Miss Mason’s books, and above all using the methods described.
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