Home education

by Charlotte M. Mason

[58] Dictated. Some Scripture answers omitted for want of space.

[59] Dictated.

Index

• Accuracy, [165].
• Adam Bede, [69].
• Affection as a motive, [144].
• Affections, the, [101].
• Air,
• as important as food, [28];
• unchanged, [31];
• night, wholesome, [34];
• country, [92];
• unvitiated, [93].
• Airings, indoor, [33].
• Alfred, King, [283].
• Alphabet, teaching the, [201].
• Ants, how to keep, [57].
• Application, habits of, [149], [150].
• Arithmetic,
• the teaching of, [253]-264;
• a means of training, [260].
• Arnold, Dr, [175].
• Art, pictorial, [307]-313.
• Artificial reflex actions, [116].
• Asser, [283].
• Association,
• a mind at the mercy of, [138];
• the law of, [157];
• a condition of recollection, [158].
• Attention,
• habit of, [86], [137]-149;
• wandering, [139];
• to things, [141];
• what is?, [145];
• self-compelled, [145].
• Audubon, [59].
• Augustine, St, [330].
• Austen, Jane, [83].
• Autobiography of Mary Howitt, [248].
• Avebury, Lord, [56].

• Baby is ubiquitous, the, [126].
• Bath, the daily, [36].
• Bede, the Venerable, [284], [285].
• Beef-tea, [32].
• Bible,
• lessons, [247]-253;
• method of, lessons, [251];
• recitations in, lessons, [253];
• the chief source of moral ideas, [336];
• the reading of the, [348].
• ‘Bird-stalking,’ [89]-92.
• Blood, certain causes affect the quality of the, [25].
• Books,
• field-lore and naturalists’, [62];
• uses of naturalists’, [64];
• lesson, [229].
• Brain,
• conditions of healthy, activity, [20];
• all mind labour means wear of, tissue, [21];
• a healthy, [96];
• incessant regeneration of, tissue, [115];
• no limit to recording power of the, [158].
• Bridgman, Laura, [195].
• Burns, [126].

• Calendars, naturalists’, [54].
• Carpenter, Dr, [68], [111], [112], [116], [131].
• Cerebration, unconscious, [108].
• Change,
• of occupation, [23];
• the child’s thoughts, [167], [325].
• Character affected by acquired modifications of brain tissue, [118];
• the result of conduct regulated by will, [320].
• Charles II., [29].
• Charts, history, [293].
• Child,
• the estate of the, [11];
• divine estimate of the, [12].
• Children,
• are public trusts, [1];
• training of, dreadfully defective, [3];
• offending the, [13]-17;
• are born law-abiding, [13];
• must perceive that their governors are law-compelled, [15];
• should have the best of their mothers, [17];
• despising the, [17];
• hindering the, [19];
• the faults of, are serious, [19];
• relationships of, with God, [19];
• the, walk every day, [29];
• out-of-door life for the, [42]-95;
• should know field-crops, [51];
• should follow the seasons, [52];
• should be encouraged to watch, [57];
• what town, can do, [59];
• get knowledge by means of their senses, [65];
• learn from things, [67];
• should be made familiar with natural objects, [69];
• and mother nature, [78]-80;
• require country air, [92];
• a physical ideal for, [94];
• have no self-compelling power, [98];
• are incapable of steady effort, [99];
• should be saved the effort of decision, [100];
• must not be left to their human nature, [102];
• habits of, are formed involuntarily, [105];
• should learn dancing, etc., at an early age, [113];
• should put away their playthings, [130];
• should be let alone, [134];
• should execute perfectly, [159];
• must have desire to obey, [161];
• learn, to grow, [171];
• learn, to get ideas, [173];
• learn, to get knowledge, [174];
• literature proper for, [176];
• danger of undervaluing intelligence of, [186];
• should be allowed some ordering of their lives, [194];
• ‘only,’ [193];
• narrate by nature, [231];
• enjoy the Bible, [247];
• should know the Bible text, [248];
• have art in them, [313];
• should be taught the way of the will, [326];
• play with moral questions, [336].
• Christ, our King, [350];
• the indwelling of, [352].
• Christianity, the essence of, [350].
• Christmas Day and other Sermons, [341], [342].
• Cinderella, [138].
• Classification, first-hand, [63].
• Clay-modelling, [313].
• Cleanliness, [124], [127].
• Climbing, [83].
• Clothing, [84].
• Cobbe, Frances Power, [102].
• Code of education in the Gospels, [12].
• Coleridge, [61], [318], [337].
• Common sense, [37].
• Compass drill, [76].
• Composition, [243]-247;
• lessons in, [245];
• comes by nature, [247].
• Conditions of healthy brain activity, [20]-37
• Conscience,
• is judge and lawgiver, [329];
• is not an infallible guide, [331];
• a real power, [332];
• a spiritual sense, [332];
• an undeveloped capability in children, [333];
• the uninstructed, [334];
• the instructed, [335];
• a child’s good, [335];
• of a child ignorant, [338];
• instructing the, [339];
• made effective by discipline, [340].
• Consequences, natural and educative, of conduct, [148].
• Copperfield, David, [69].
• Cowper, [22], [86].
• Creatures, living, [56]-62.
• Cul-de-sac, an educational, [89].

• Darwin, [107].
• Dates in history teaching, [289].
• Dawes, the Rev. Richard, [270].
• Days in the open, [43].
• Decision, a ‘conscientious,’ [334].
• Desires, the, [100].
• Desks, [239], [265].
• Despising the children, [17]-19.
• Dickens, Charles, [69], [186], [263].
• Dictation, [240];
• steps of a lesson in, [241].
• Diogenes and the Naughty Boys of Troy, [152].
• Direction,
• in geography lessons, [74];
• practice in finding, [75].
• Distance, in geography lessons, [73].
• Diversion, [324].
• Divine life in the child, the, [341]-352.
• Drawing lessons, [312].
• Drills, [315].
• Duty of a child, the whole, [160].

• Edgeworth, Maria, [148].
• Education, by Herbert Spencer, [4].
• Education,
• traditional methods of, [6];
• code of, in the Gospels, [12];
• ‘the reign of law’ in, [37];
• based upon natural law, [96]-134;
• is the formation of habits, [97];
• intellectual and moral, [117];
• infant, [125];
• in habits favours an easy life, [135];
• a science of, [135];
• lessons as instruments of, [169]-316.
• Educational forces, Love, Law, Religion, [99].
• Educator, problem before the, [103].
• Emulation, [143].
• Enunciation, [230].
• Esau, [40].
• Evans, Mr, [69].
• Evenings at Home, [265].
• Exaggeration, [165].
• Exercise,
• mental, [21];
• daily physical, [132]-134.

• Family is the unit of the nation, the, [5].
• Farrar, Dean, [56].
• Faults of children, the, [19].
• Faust, Marlowe’s, [107], [119].
• Field lore, [62]-65.
• Fleming, Marjorie, [223].
• Flowers,
• and trees, [51]-56;
• field, and the life-history of plants, [51];
• Leigh Hunt on, [53].
• Francis, S., [60].
• Free-will and habit, [110].
• French Home Life, [7].
• French,
• the, lesson, [80], [157], [300]-307;
• M. Gouin’s method, [302];
• the Series, [303].
• Froebel, [179], [185], [197], [198].

• Games,
• out-of-door, [80];
• noisy, [81].
• Garden of Eden, the, [128].
• Garments,
• porous, [36];
• for walks in bad weather, [87].
• Geography,
• out-of-door, [72]-78;
• pictorial, [72];
• physical, [73];
• ‘distance,’ [73];
• ‘direction,’ [74];
• use of compass in, [76];
• ‘boundaries,’ [77];
• ‘plans,’ [77];
• local, [78], [271]-279;
• should be interesting, [273];
• how to begin, [273];
• maps, [275];
• general knowledge of, [276];
• particular knowledge of, [276];
• definitions, [277];
• fundamental ideas of, [277].
• God,
• relationship of children with, [19];
• allegiance to, [38];
• the Law-giver, [39];
• presented as an Exactor, [345];
• the knowledge of, distinct from morality, [347];
• the Father and Giver, [349].
• Gordon, [322].
• Gospels, the code of education in the, [12], [19].
• Gouin, M., [304].
• Grace, divine, works on lines of human effort, [104].
• Grammar, [295]-300;
• a difficult study, [295];
• Latin, [295];
• English, a logical study, [295];
• first lessons in, [296]-300.
• Guido’s ‘Magdalen,’ [322].