Also, by not merely going over everything in his mind, but by actually speaking it aloud or composing it in writing, the learner is making the knowledge his own. What he has heard or read, then narrated, he knows. It has been said that teachers learn more than those taught. Charlotte Mason found, as have hundreds of parents and teachers since who have tried her methods faithfully, that children retain the knowledge they have narrated better than we can imagine. Ask them about it again, weeks later, and they are able to tell it again, because they know it. Lastly, I urge, as undeniably the
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