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What is the Charlotte Mason Method?

What is the Charlotte Mason Method?

Charlotte Mason was a British educator from the 1800’s-1900’s who challenged and changed the ideas of standard learning through use of living textbooks and life experiences to teach students. She was a dramatic reformer in the ideas of what “learning” and “education” meant. She believed that children naturally learn in their environment through experience. Using discovery methods and creative storytelling, Charlotte Mason is a teaching style that incorporates topics and skills while also learning character and life skills with “living…

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What is the Montessori Method?

What is the Montessori Method?

Who is Maria Montessori? Maria Montessori is a fascinating woman born in the 1800’s who defied the odds of gender and psychology. After gaining a degree in physics-mathematics, then a degree as a Doctor of Medicine and then a degree in psychology, she changed the fundamental ideas of education principles. Montessori boils down to one key concept: children explore and learn at their own pace with spontaneous interest. While she learned and gained her degrees, she worked with and observed…

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