Review of Stories Are Soul Food - Have you read Charlotte Mason

Have you read Charlotte Mason

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“Have you all read Charlotte Mason? She was a British educational philosopher writing in the early 20th century. It feels like you are quoting her a lot. She says “the intellectual life, like every manner of spiritual life, has but one food whereby it lives and grows-the sustenance of living ideas.” She talks about spreading a broad feast of ideas, which is food for the mind (not getting stuck in one genre). One of her 20 principles is that the function of reason is to justify some idea already accepted by the will. She says the child is not a sac to hold ideas but a spiritual organism with an appetite for knowledge. She was a Christian. I read this quote by her today, it was written in 1904, “we Western nations have become enfeebled by a philosophy whose first principle is that we must never under any circumstances lose our life.””

AP 45 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/12/21