Home education - Charlotte M. Mason

Habit,
is ten natures, [96]-134;
the instrument by which parents work, [97];
may supplant nature, [105];
runs on the lines of nature, [105];
may be a lever, [105];
a, is formed involuntarily, [105];
forces nature into new channels, [106];
lines of, must be laid down, [107];
direction of lines of, [109];
and free-will, [110];
rules our thoughts and acts, [110];
powerful even when the will decides, [111];
the physiology of, [111]-118;
the forming of a, [119]-124;
a delight in itself, [121];
stages in formation of a, [122];
of music, [133];
of attention, [137];
of application, [149];
of thinking, [150];
of imagining, [151];
of remembering, [154];
of perfect execution, [159];
of obedience, [160]-164;
may frustrate the will, [326];
of self-management, [328].
Habits,
moral and mental, [113];
infant, [124]-132;
of time and place, [131];
of mind, [135]-168;
moral, [135]-168;
training in, becomes a habit, [136];
inspired in the home atmosphere, [137];
slipshod, [229].
Hall, Dr Stanley, [198].
Handicrafts, [315].
Havelock, [322].
Head, Captain, [150].
Heidelberg, [159].
Heredity, [101].
Hindering the children, [19], [20].
History,
the teaching of, [279]-295;
a storehouse of ideas, [279];
‘outlines,’ mischievous, [280];
early, best fitted for children, [281];
chronicles, [282];
myths, [284];
books, [287];
dates in teaching, [291];
narrating and illustrations, [294];
‘playing at,’ [294].
Home,
the best growing ground for young children, [170];
work, [147].
Honour, the sense of, [128].
Houdin, [86].
Howe, Dr, [195].
Hullah, Mr, [133].
Human nature, [101], [102].
Hunt, Leigh, [53].
Huxley, [23], [116].

Ideas,
children learn, to get, [173];
grow and produce after their kind, [173];
Scott and Stevenson worked with, [174];
value of dominant, [174];
lessons must furnish, [174];
fitting and vital, [347].
Illustrations, original, [311].
Imagination,
tales of the, [152];
and great conceptions, [152];
grows, [153].
Imagining, the habit of, [151]-154.
Inattention, [229].
Incongruous, sense of the, [151].
Indian Mutiny, the, [335].
Inertness of parents, the, [332].
Influence, outside, [118].
Initiative, the importance of personal, [192].
Intelligence, the danger of undervaluing children’s, [186].
Intentions, good, and common sense, [37].
Intimacy with nature, [71].
Intimations of Immortality, [11]-12.

Jerusalem, [82].
Jesus, our Saviour, [351].

Keller, Helen, [194]-196.
Kindergarten,
the, method, [8], [82], [170];
the, as a place of education, [178]-199;
the nursery need not be a, [179];
field of knowledge too circumscribed in the, [179];
‘occupations,’ [180];
‘sweetness and light’ in the, [180];
further considerations of the, [182]-199;
a false analogy, [189];
Miss Sullivan on the, [195];
the, in the United States, [196];
Mr Thistleton Mark on the, [197];
Dr Stanley Hall on the, [198].
Kindergärtnerin,
the mother the best, [178];
the true, [185], [188].
Kindness, [339].
Kingsley, [58], [71].
King’s Somborne School, [268].
Knowledge,
nature, [61];
attractiveness of, [145];
the doctoring of the material of, [172];
children learn, to get, [174];
diluted, [175];
Dr Arnold’s, as a child, [175];
of God distinct from morality, [347].

Landseer, [309].
Law,
reign of, in education, [37];
‘mind’ and ‘matter’ equally governed by, [39];
antagonism to, shown by some religious persons, [39];
and love as educational forces, [99];
ensures liberty, [164].
Laws of health, [16];
of the intellectual and moral life, [16].
Laws of Thought, Thompson’s, [150].
Lesson,
must recall the last, each, [156];
books, [229].
Lessons,
attractive, [141];
as instruments of education, [169]-316;
must furnish ideas, [174].
Life of Wesley, Southey’s, [200].
Life,
out-of-door, [92]-95;
the divine, in the child, [341]-353.
Light, solar, [94].
Literature, proper for children, [176].
Lives, law-abiding, often more blameless than pious, [38].
Livingstone, Dr, [101], [274], [275].
Logic, J. S. Mill’s, [261].
Lucy, Wordsworth’s, [33].
Lycidas, [225].
Lying, three causes of, [164], [165].

Macaulay’s schoolboy, [30].
Magnetism in the teacher, personal, [188].
Malmesbury, William of, [283].
Manners, good, [132].
Mansoul, the government of, [317].
Maps, [275];
the meaning of, [278].
Mark, Mr Thistleton, [197].
Marlowe, [119].
Masterly inactivity, [5], [134], [192].
Mathematics, the preparation for, [263].
Maurice, F. D., [341], [342].
Meals,
concerning, [25];
talk at, [26];
variety in, [27];
out of doors, [42].
Memorising, [224].
Memory,
a ‘spurious,’ [155];
a record in the brain substance, [155].
Men,
grown, lose habit of observation, [69];
power will pass into the hands of scientific, [71].
Mental effort, rapid, [149].
Mental Physiology, Dr Carpenter’s, [68], [111], [112], [116], [131].
Method,
a way to an end, [8];
kindergarten, [8];
a system easier than a, [9].
Methods, traditional, of education, [6].
Mill, J. S., [261], [323].
Miller, Miss, [217].
Mind,
labour means wear of brain, [21];
and matter equally governed by law, [39].
Modesty, [128].
Modifications, acquired, of brain tissue, [118].
Monmouth, Geoffrey of, [285].
‘Mooning,’ [147].
Moore, the Rev. H. A., [270].
Morell’s Introduction to Mental Philosophy, [68], [329].
Morley, Professor, [283].
‘Mother-games’ too strenuous for children, [190].
Mother, the, the best kindergärtnerin, [178].
Mothers,
owe a ‘thinking’ love to their children, [2];
form their children’s habits involuntarily, [105];
and teachers should know about nature, [64];
must refrain from too much talk, [78].
Music, the habit of, [133], [314].

Narrating, the art of, [231]-233.
Natural philosophy, [264]-271.
Naturalist, mental training of a child, [61].
Naturalists’ books, [64].
Nature,
diaries, [54], [62], [65];
work most important for young children, [61];
especially valuable for girls, [62];
mothers and teachers should know about, [64];
the teaching of, [65];
intimacy with, makes for personal well-being, [71];
what is, [100];
plus heredity, [101];
elemental notion of human, [101];
plus physical conditions, [102];
human, the sum of certain attributes, [102];
as an educator, [186];
danger of supplanting, [191].
Neatness akin to order, [130].
Newton, Sir Isaac, [54].
Nightingale, Florence, [322].
Nose, a sensitive, [125].
Notation, [257].
Nourishment, mental, [24].
‘Nurse,’ [18].

Obedience,
habit of, [128], [160];
no accidental duty, [161];
must be expected, [162].
Object lessons, [67].
Observation,
discriminating, [47];
grown men lose habit of, [69];
in winter, [85].
Occupation, change of, [23].
Offending the children, [13]-17.
Opinion, the force of public, in the home, [58].
Order, habit of, [129].
Overpressure, [66], [146].
Osborne, George, [243].
Othello, [4].
Out-of-door life for the children, [43]-45.
Oxygen,
has its limitation, [30];
the essential proportion of, [92].

‘Pacing,’ [73].
Palace Tales, by H. Fielding, [296].
Paradise Lost, [24], [226].
Parents,
may offend by disregarding laws of health and of the intellectual and moral life, [16];
must acquaint themselves with principles of physiology and moral science, [40];
the trust of, must not be supine, [104];
must lay down laws of habit, [107];
must expect obedience, [162];
must reflect on subject-matter of instruction, [169];
must sow opportunities, [192];
inertness of, [331];
have some power to enthrone the King, [341];
must present idea of God to children, [343];
must not make blundering efforts, [344];
must select inspiring ideas, [346];
must teach only what they know, [346].
Parents’ Review, the, [270].
Paul, St, [322].
Persistence, [122].
Persons,
born with the same primary desires and affections, all, [100], [101];
the requirements of, [186].
Perspiration, free, [35];
insensible, [35].
Pestalozzi, [2].
‘Picture-painting,’ [48]-51;
method of, [48];
a strain on the attention, [48];
fully and in detail, [49];
the mother’s part in, [49];
a means of after solace, [50].
Picture-talk, [309].
‘Plans’ in teaching geography, [77].
Plato, [185].
Pleasures connected with frost and snow, [85].
Plutarch’s Lives, [233], [286].
Possibilities of a day in the open, [43].
Power, no limit to the recording, of the brain, [158].
Priestley’s, Dr, Lectures on History, [176].
Printing, [234].
Problems in arithmetic, [257].
Pronunciation, careful, [206].
Prospero, [30].
Punch, [94].
Punishments, [148].
Purity, [128].
Pussy Box, [222].

Reading, [199]-222;
at sight, [204];
the, of prose, [204];
ordinary method of teaching, [206];
the first, lessons, [207]-222;
by sight and by sound, [214];
handwriting, [214];
arbitrary symbols, [215];
sentences, [218];
moral training in, lessons, [221];
for older children, [226]-230;
the habit of, [227];
aloud to children, [227].
Recitation, [222]-226.
Recollection, [154];
and the law of association, [157].
‘Red Indian’ life, [88].
Reflex actions may be acquired, artificial, [116].
Regularity in infant education, [131].
Religion as an educational force, [99].
Religious instruction, [347].
Remembering, [154].
Rest, [22];
after meals, [22].
Reverence, for life, [62], [166].
Rewards, [148].
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [314].
Richter, J. Paul, [88].
Robinson Crusoe, [152], [187], [232].
Rondes, [82].
Rosamund and the Purple Jar, [148].
Ruskin, [155], [263], [312].