Reviews

When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today by

nina_christine's review

informative

4.0

gena_with_an_e's review

5.0

An excellent resource for those wishing to implement Charlotte Mason's methods. Although much is geared in many ways for application within a school setting, this is also helpful for those that want to homeschool using this philosophy.

ashleyeila's review

4.0

I had started reading this book a year ago but was just having a hard time getting through it. I stopped and now that my oldest will be starting kindergarten in the fall, I soaked up everything and found it very helpful. My advice is if you only have young children, just enjoy your time with them then read this when you are really going to start Charlotte Mason schooling for your child.

travelgirlut's review

2.0

This book really didn't add anything to my knowledge of how to teach under the Charlotte Mason philosophy beyond what I had gained for free off the internet. I had hoped it would have more modern applications like the title implies, but things like the internet and computers and such are only briefly mentioned in asides and not as elements of any curriculum. The book doesn't even give a complete curriculum outline. It just gives samples from a couple grades, not enough to even build my own curriculum from. I did glean maybe two ideas from this book that I hadn't thought of before, but I don't think the time invested in the book made it worth it. So not a book I would turn to to learn more of CM and how to teach like her. Look for other books (though there aren't many great ones) and definitely on the internet. Lots of info there.

wrh121's review

3.0

I did this as a (very) slow read so I feel like it was harder for me to get back into it each time I picked this book up. The first part is essays written by various educators so i found some I loved and thought were helpful and some I didn’t like so much. If you are a Charlotte Mason purist, or wanting to be, you will find this book helpful. If you’re wanting to learn more about Charlotte Mason and her philosophy I think this book would be enlightening as well. I am just finding that, while I do agree with much of the basis of her philosophy (mainly that children are born person and the focus on atmosphere and relationships) I do not think her way is the only way and don’t know that keeping perfectly in line with how she ran a school is really that important.

summermsmith's review

4.0

I started this months ago, reading a little bit at a time. It was a really good book to conceptualize all the aspects of Charlotte Mason teaching. I’m glad I read it.