Charlotte Mason Was Not About “Home Education” But….

really all was developed as a distance learning program if they could not attend a school.

Home Education and Children a Public Trust

Children are a public trust HOME EDUCATION she says….

Now, that work is of the most importance to society is the bringing up and instruction of the children-in the school, certainly, but far more in the home, because it is more than anything else the home influences brought to bear upon the child that determine the character and career of the future man or woman….. 1 her volume one Home Education

continuing on page 2 she says;

a parent is not free to say, “I may do as I will with mine own.” (Wow did it take a village then too?) The children are in truth, to be regarded less as personal property than as public trusts put into the hands of parents that they may make the very most of them for the good of society. And this responsibility is not equally divided between the parents: it is upon the mothers of the present that the future of the world depends, in even a greater degree than upon the fathers, because it is the mothers who have the sole direction of the children’s most impressable years…..

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths. Isaiah 3:12

vol.1 pg.3 CM says,

Some acquaintance with the first principles of the physiology and the elementary truths of psychology is indespensible for the right bringing up of children. Really….I thought it is the word of God.

Herbert Spencer she quotes in her book so she must believe this…here it is pg.4

….Here are the indisputable facts: that the developoment of children in mind and body follows certain laws; that unless these laws in some degree are conformed to by parents, death is inevitable; that unless they are in great degree conformed to, there must result serious physical and mental defects; and that only when they are completely conformed to, can a perfect maturity be reached.

It is the teaching of the Bible and sound political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the childrenof the commomwealth are the charge of the commonwealth is a pagan one derived from heathen Sparta and Plato’s heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissloution of the conjugal tie. Robert Lewis Dabney