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TIP #8: Expose your child to great minds - Beginner Guide to Charlotte Mason

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TIP #8: Expose your child to great minds - Beginner Guide to Charlotte Mason

"We owe it to every child to put him in communication with great minds that he may get at great thoughts." is a well-known quotation from one of Charlotte Mason's volumes.  Charlotte Mason recommended that we expose our children to great artworks, great music, great poetry and great literature from an early age, so that they can use these as inspiration to go on to create great ideas of their own. This is why most Charlotte Mason curricula include subjects such as Composer Study or Musical Appreciation and Picture Study, with a large focus on well-written works of literature.  While being...

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