A Full Life: The Works of Charlotte Mason

Our aim in Education is to give a Full Life. -C. Mason

Filed under: Chapter 22, Appendix, Vol. 2 — CM Blogger at 1:11 am on Saturday, June 28, 2008

CHAPTER XXII - A CATECHISM OF EDUCATIONAL THEORY

1. Show that character is an achievement.
2. What gives rise to conduct?
3. What means have we of modifying disposition?
4. Give the history of a habit.
5. How may a bad habit be corrected?
6. Show that our conduct is generally directed by unconscious, or sub-conscious cerebration.
7. How far do the habits of a ‘well-brought-up’ person make life easy for him?
8. Why does the forming of a habit demand time?
9. Trace the logical development of a notion.
10. Show that reason is not an infallible guide to conduct.
11. Show how confusion as to logical and moral right works in the history of the world.
12. Why, then, should a child know what he is as a human being?
13. Show how far such knowledge is a safeguard.
14. What is the part of the will in the reception of ideas?
15. How are ideas conveyed?
16. What may we believe is the part of the divine Educator in things natural and spiritual?
17. What part do lessons play in education?
18. What principle as regards a curriculum do we find in a child’s natural aptitude for knowledge?

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