Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles

I started out participating in the Ambleside Online Forums' reading and discussion of Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles, as they are outlined in Brandy Vincel's Start Here. The group schedule is here. I'm too slow, so I'm straggling along, doing it at my own pace. Happily, the forum stays open and the threads are still there to read and comment on. There's a lot to think about in all the materials; I just can't take it all in as fast as they're going. But they've invited people to participate and discuss at our own pace, even after the schedule says it's officially time to move on to other things, so I occasionally do. Whatever the pace that I manage, there will be growth. I'm collecting here my posts that are inspired by this study, and this post will be updated as I plan and complete posts over the next several months. As I do this, I'm not doing them in exactly the same order that Miss Mason lists them.


Introduction: Foundational Thoughts
Reading:
Teaching in the Branches by Charlotte Mason 
A Meeting With the Principle Chapter 1, by Ali Eisenach
Choices by Thomas S Monson

My posts: 
Moral Education
Habit in Religious Life
The Limits of Authority
Principled Education: Authority
Principled Education: Ideas

Ambelside Online forum threads:
Introduction 


Principle 20: Thoroughly Christian
Reading:
Parents and Children Ch.25: The Great Recognition Required by Parents by C Mason
Mosiah 18:8-9, Mosiah 23:13-14
A Meeting With the Principle Chapter 2-3, by Ali Eisenach 

Extra Reading:
Let Your Faith Show, by Elder Russell M. Nelson(12)
Thoroughly Christian - CM's 20th Principle, by Brandy Vencel

My posts:
A Thoroughly Christian Education

Ambleside Online forum threads:
Principle 20: Thoroughly Christian 
Principle 20: No separation of spiritual and intellectual life 


Principle One: Children are Born Persons
Reading:


My posts: 
Born Persons
Evidence of Things Not Seen

Ambleside Online forum threads: 
Principle 1: Children are born persons. 


Principle Two: Potential for Good and Evil

My posts: 
On Justice (part 1)
On Justice (part 2)

Natural Man; Children of God

Religion's Handmaid

Ambleside Online forum threads: 
Principle 2: Potential for good and for evil.
 


Principle Three: Authority and Obedience

My posts: 
Authority is an Eternal Principle
Meekness in and under Authority

Ambleside Online forum threads: 
Principle 3: Authority and Obedience 




Principle Four: Do Not Encroach

Ambleside Online forum threads: 
Principle 4: Do Not Encroach




Principles 14 and 15: Narration

My posts: 
Narration: A Backbone of Classical Education

Ambleside Online forum threads: 
Principle 14 and 15: Narration


Principles 16a & 17: The Way of the Will
Reading:
Home Education (v.1) p98-100: Children Have No Self-Compelling Power by C. Mason


My posts:
What is a Strong Will?


Ambleside Online forum threads:
Principle 16a & 17: The Way of the Will





Additional Reading:

History of the Academy, by Karl G Maeser 
Seek Ye Wisdom by Lowell L Benson



Ambleside Forum Threads:



Principle 5a and 6: Education is an Atmosphere
Principle 5b and 7:  Education as a Discipline
Principle 5c and 8: Education as a Life
Principle 9, 10, and 11: Feasting on Knowledge
Principle 12: Education is the Science of Relations
Principle 13:  Syllabus for a Normal Child

Principle 16b & 18: The Way of Reason
Principle 19: Instruction of Conscience