In her book A Philosophy of Education, the great educator Charlotte Mason said that when we put children in direct contact with great ideas, “Teachers shall teach less and scholars shall learn more.”26 Any homeschooling parent who has observed her own children for any length of time will know this to be true. Meaningful learning happens when our children wrestle directly with great ideas—not as a result of our repackaging those great ideas, but when they interact with the ideas themselves.
