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Training teachers in the CM philosophy

‘Habit is Ten Natures’
‘I Can’t Stop Thinking’
‘Living Creatures’
‘Mind’ and ‘Matter’ equally governed by Law
‘Nurse’
‘Picture-Painting’
‘Red Indian’ Life
‘Rondes’
‘Sightseeing’
‘Sightseeing’ Intro
‘I Feed Alice on Beef Tea’
‘The Reign of Law’ in Education
A Child learns from ‘Things’
A Child’s Relationship with Almighty God
A Field of Interest and Delight
A Growing Time
A Healthy Brain
A Means of After-Solace and Refreshment
A Method of Education
A Mother forms her Children’s Habits involuntarily
A Physical Ideal for a Children
A Sensitive Nose
A System easier than a Method
About Us
Air as important as food
All Mind Labor Means Wear of Brain
All Persons born with the same Primary Desires
An Educational Cul-de-sac
An Observant Child should be put in the way of Things worth Observing
And Affections
and of the Intellectual Life
And of the Moral Life
Antagonism to Law shown by some Religious Persons
Appendix A
Artificial Reflex Actions may be Acquired
Begin it, and the thing will be completed!
Bird-Stalking
Boundaries
But Habit may be a Lever
Calendars
Certain Causes affect the Quality of Blood
Change of Occupation
Character affected by Acquired Modification of Brain Tissue
Children are a public trust
Children are born Law-abiding
Children should be encouraged to Watch
Children should be saved the Effort of Decision
Children should have the best of their Mothers
Children should know Field-crops
Children’s Faults are Serious
Climbing
Clothing
Clouds, Rain, Snow, and Hail
Code of Education in the Gospels
Common Sense and Good Intentions
Compass Drill
Concerning Meals
Conditions of Healthy Brain Activity
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Content of the most Elemental Notion of Human Nature
Daily Bath and Porous Garments
Despising the Children
Direction
Direction of Lines of Habit
Discriminating Observation
Distance …
Divine Grace works on the Lines of Human Effort
Do ye next thinge
Drill of Good Manners
East and West
Education Based on Natural Law
Educational Uses of ‘Sight-seeing’
Every Natural Object a Member of a Series
Excess of Carbonic Acid Gas
Exercise
Field Flowers and the Life-History of Plants
Field-lore and Naturalists’ Books
Flowers and Trees
For Dwellers in Towns and Suburbs
Formation of Character
Free Perspiration
From the Pen of Charlotte Mason
Growing Tissues form themselves to Modes of Action
Guided Tour
Habit a Delight in itself
Habit and Free-will
Habit forces Nature into New Channels
Habit may Supplant Nature
Habit may Supplant Nature – Intro
Habit of Attention
Habit powerful even where the Will decides
Habit rules ninety-nine in a hundred of our Thoughts and Acts
Habit runs on the Lines of Nature
Habit the Instrument by which Parents Work
Habits of Time and Place
Hindering the Children
Home
Home Education
How Parents Usually Proceed
How to See
Human Nature the Sum of certain Attributes
Importance of Daily
Incessant Regeneration of Brain Tissue
Indoor Airings
Infant ‘Habits’
Infant Habits Intro
Insensible Perspiration
Intellectual and Moral Education
Intimacy with Nature makes for Personal Well-being
Intro for Out-of-Door Games
IX. Out-of-Door Geography
Law-abiding Lives often more blameless than Pious lives
Leigh Hunt on Flowers
Let Children Alone
Local Geography
Locating Chapter Questions
Love, Law, and Religion as Educational Forces
Making a New Acquaintance
Meals out of Doors
Mental Training of a Child Naturalist
Method a Way to an End
Method of
Modesty and Purity
Moral and Mental Habits make their Mark upon Physical Tissues
Most Grown Men lose the Habit of Observation
Mothers and Teachers should know about Nature
Mothers owe a ‘thinking love’ to their children
Nature Diaries
Nature Knowledge the most important for Young Children
Nature plus Heredity
Nature Work especially valuable for Girls
Nature’s Teaching
Neatness Akin to Order
Night Air Wholesome
No Storybooks
Noisy Games
Nourishment
Nursery Theology
Object Lessons
Offending the Children
Offenses
Order Essential
Ourselves
Out-of-Door Games etc.
Out-of-door Life
Outer Garments for
Outside Influence
Overpressure
Oxygen has its Limitations
Parents and Children
Parents and Teachers must lay down Lines of Habit
Parents may Offend their Children by disregarding the Laws of Health
Parents must acquaint themselves with the Principles of Physiology and Moral Science
Part I Some Preliminary Considerations
Part II – Out-of-Door Life for the Children
Part V – Lessons as Instruments of Education
Persistent Trains of Thought
Personal Cleanliness as an Early Habit
Physical Exercises
Pictorial Geography
Plans
Pleasures connected with Frost and Snow
Plus Physical Conditions
Possibilities of a Day in the Open
Power will pass, more and more, into the hands of Scientific Men
Practice in Finding Direction
Precautions
Preface to the ‘Home Education’ Series
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Prefaces
Problem before the Educator
References
Regularity
Rest
Rest After Meals
Reverence for Life
Rough Classification at First Hand
Sample Page
School Education
Scouting
Seeing Fully and in Detail
Skipping Rope and Shuttlecock
Small Things may teach Great
Solar Light
Some Branches of Infant Education
Some Preliminary Considerations – section
Some Preliminary Considerations Intro
Stages in the Formation of a Habit
Strain on the Attention
Sunshine
Tact, Watchfulness, and Persistence
Talk at Meals
The Baby is Ubiquitous
The Child and Mother-Nature
The Child gets Knowledge by means of his Senses
The Child in the Midst
The Child must not be left to his Human Nature
The Child of Two should put away his Playthings
The Child should be made Familiar with Natural Objects
The Child’s Estate
The Children have No Self-compelling Power
The Children Require Country Air
The Children walk everyday
The Dangerous Stage
The Essential Proportion of Oxygen
The Force of Public Opinion in the Home
The Forming of a Habit
The French Lesson
The Habit of Music
The Habit of Obedience and the Sense of Honour
The Laying Down of Lines of Habit
The Mother must refrain from too much Talk
The Physiology of Habit
The Physiology of Habit Intro
The Position of the Sun
The Seasons should be followed
The Sense of Beauty comes from Early Contact with Nature
The Study of Trees
The Trust of Parents must not be Supine†
Therefore Children should learn Dancing, Swimming, etc at an Early Age
They must perceive that their Governors are Law-compelled
Towards a Philosophy of Education
Traditional Methods of Education
Training is ‘dreadfully defective’
Training of the Ear and Voice
Two Things permissible to the Mother
Unchanged Air
Unvitiated, Unimpoverished Air
Uses of “Naturalists'” Books
Using a hard copy
Using course to find resource
Variety in Meals
Ventilation
Walks in Bad Weather
We Think, as we are accustomed to Think
Wet Weather Tramps
What is ‘Nature’ Intro
What is ‘Nature’?
What Town Children can Do
What’s coming!
Why Children are incapable of Steady Effort
Winter Observations
Winter Walks as necessary as Summer Walks
Wordsworth’s Lucy

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