Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

by Karen Glass

But we do not scorn the bridge that has borne us. (School Education, p.

Charlotte Mason shared the conviction of the classical educators

Quintilian agreed and asserts, “Nothing is worse than those who have made some little progress beyond the first elements and on the strength of this are filled with a false idea of their knowledge.” (Institutes of Oratory) This

Well, that is the first character of a good and wise man at his work. To know that he knows very little;—to perceive that there are many above him wiser than he; and to be

always asking questions, wanting to learn, not to teach. (John Ruskin, The Crown of Wild Olive)

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