Using a Living Charlotte Mason Education is a craft. To implement it, we approach learning in our homes as a craftsman would approach his medium. I’m using the definition of the word craft as in making something, forming something – not the other definitions as crafty being deceitful or a craft as in a boat or vessel. I’m speaking of craft as in an … Continue reading CM Craftsmanship
CHAPTER IV THE WILL AND ITS PEERS The Will subject to Solicitations.—It is rather easeful to think of Will standing before the forces of Mansoul, saying to this one, ‘Go,’ and to another, ‘Come,’ and to a third, ‘Do this, and he doeth it.’ The will is subject to solicitations all round from ‘the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Bk II Pt II Chapter 4
“But the ‘lightly come, lightly go’ of a mere verbal memory follows no such rules. The child gets his exercise ‘by heart,’ says it off like a parrot, and behold, it is gone; there is no record of it upon the brain at all. To secure such a record, there must be time; time for that full gaze of the mind we call attention, and … Continue reading April 21, 2019. Lightly come, lightly go.
CHAPTER III WILL NOT MORAL OR IMMORAL To ‘Will’ is not to ‘be Good.’—Perhaps what has already been said about Will may lend itself to the children’s definition of ‘being good,’ and our imaginary dividing line may appear to have all the good people on the one side, and all the not good on the other. But the man of will may act … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Bk II Pt II Chapter 3
CHAPTER II WILL AND WILFULNESS Wilful Persons are of Various Dispositions.—What of the person who always contrives to get his own way, whether he get it by means of stormy scenes, crafty management, sly evasion, or dogged persistence? The dogged and the blustering person are commonly supposed to have strong wills; the sly, and the managing person keep somehow out of our notice, we … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Bk II Pt II Chapter 2
PART II THE WILL CHAPTER I THE WILL-LESS LIFE IT perhaps occurs to the reader that man is indeed the Sphinx’s riddle, and that the more we think of ourselves the more we are baffled. This is true enough; but the inference—‘let the puzzle alone’—is by no means safe. For this baffling problem of human nature must needs occupy us from the cradle to the … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Bk II Pt II Chapter 1
CHAPTER XIX DUTY AND LAW Right and Wrong.—Sin, temptation, repentance, throw us back upon something behind them all. Why is it wrong to do wrong? And, what is wrong? People have answered these questions in various ways. Some say it is wrong to neglect or offend other men, and that therefore to care for and consider our fellows is right; and right only because … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book II Chapter 19
CHAPTER XVIII TEMPTATION Sudden Temptation.—Though in placid moments they are what we are most aware of, our sins of omission are by no means the greatest trouble of our lives. Like St Christopher, we have to fight our way against the floods, however quiet our lives may seem. Some little peevishness or petulance about a trifle, some slight resentment against a friend, some … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book II Chapter 18
SECTION III THE FUNCTION OF CONSCIENCE CHAPTER XVII CONVICTION OF SIN Convicts of Sin.—Conscience would seem to have but a single office—to convince us of sin—that is, of transgression. The older divines used to speak much of an approving conscience; but this approval would appear to be no more than silence; for self-approbation, as we have seen, is, in itself, an offence. Then, … Continue reading Ourselves Volume 4 Book II Chapter 17
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