It was through the efforts and expense of Dean and Karen Andreola that Charlotte Mason's Original Home Schooling Series was published in the United States in 1989.

It is with gratitude and permission of the Andreola's that Ambleside Schools International makes Charlotte Mason's six volumes available. (Link to the Andreola's).

 

Part I Some Preliminary Considerations

1. A Method of Education
2. The Child's Estate
3. Offending the Children
4. Despising the Children
5. Hindering the Children
6. Conditions of Healthy Brain-Activity
7. 'The Reign of Law' in Education

Part II  Out-Of-Door Life For The Children

1. A Growing Time
2. Sight-Seeing
3. 'Picture-Painting'
4. Flowers and Trees
5. 'Living Creatures'
6. Field-Lore and Naturalists' Books
7. The Child Gets Knowledge By Means Of His Senses
8. The Child Should Be Made Familiar With Natural Objects
9. Out-Of-Door Geography
10. The Child And Mother-Nature
11. Out-Of-Door Games, etc.
12. Walks In Bad Weather
13. 'Red Indian' Life
14. The Children Require Country Air

Part III 'Habit Is Ten Natures'

1. Education Based Upon Natural Law
2. The Children Have No Self-Compelling Power
3. What Is 'Nature'?
4. Habit May Supplant 'Nature'
5. The Laying Down Of Lines Of Habit
6. The Physiology Of Habit
7. The Forming Of A Habit––'Shut The Door After You'
8. Infant 'Habits'
9. Physical Exercises

Part IV Some Habits Of Mind - Some Moral Habits

1. The Habit of Attention
2. The Habits of Application, Etc.
3. The Habit of Thinking
4. The Habit of Imagining
5. The Habit of Remembering
6. The Habit of Perfect Execution
7. Some Moral Habits - Obedience
8. Truthfulness

Part V Lessons As Instruments Of Education

1. The Matter and Method of Lessons
2. The Kindergarten As A Place of Education
3. Further Consideration Of The Kindergarten
4. Reading
5. The First Reading Lesson
6. Reading By Sight And Sound
7. Recitation
8. Reading for Older Children
9. The Art of Narrating
10. Writing
11. Transcription
12. Spelling And Dictation
13. Composition
14. Bible Lessons
15. Arithmetic
16. Natural Philosophy
17. Geography
18. History
19. Grammar
20. French
21. Pictorial Art

Part VI. The Will - The Conscience - The Divine Life In The Child

1. The Will
2. The Conscience
3. The Divine Life In The Child

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