Living during an era in which the market for children’s products exists as never before, one is tempted to play into the idea that children are in need of an undemanding, diluted text to furnish food for the mind in the way of great literature, including Shakespeare. Today’s research on the brain and Charlotte Mason’s insight regarding the mind at work both concur with the idea of challenging the student through the use of worthy thoughts in the form of literary language. There are manifold benefits in putting children in the way of beautiful language and vivid ideas. The younger child
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