Volume 1: Home Education by Charlotte Mason

        (Thanks to Nicole Capehart for typing half of Volume 1)

• Preface
• Part 1 Some Preliminary Considerations . . . pg. 1
  • I. A Method Of Education . . . pg. 6
  • II. The Child's Estate . . . pg. 11
  • III. Offending The Children . . . pg. 13
  • IV. Despising The Children . . . pg. 17
  • V. Hindering The Children . . . pg. 19
  • VI. Conditions Of Healthy Brain-Activity . . . pg. 20
  • VII. 'The Reign Of Law' In Education . . . pg. 37
• Part II Out-Of-Door Life For The Children
            (first portion)
  • I. A Growing Time . . . pg. 42
  • II. Sight-Seeing . . . pg. 45
  • III. Picture-Painting . . . pg. 48
  • IV. Flowers And Trees . . . pg. 51
  • V. 'Living Creatures' . . . pg. 56
  • VI. Field-Lore And Naturalists' Books . . . pg. 62
  • VII. The Child Gets Knowledge By Means Of His Senses . . . pg. 65
  • VIII. The Child Should Be Made Familiar With Natural Objects . . . pg. 69
    (second portion)
  • IX. Out-Of-Door Geography . . . pg. 72
  • X. The Child And Mother-Nature . . . pg. 78
  • XI. Out-Of-Door Games, Etc. . . . pg. 80
  • XII. Walks In Bad Weather . . . pg. 85
  • XIII. 'Red Indian' Life . . . pg. 88
  • XIV. The Children Require Country Air . . . pg. 92
• Part III 'Habit Is Ten Natures'
  • I. Education Based Upon Natural Law . . . pg. 96
  • II. The Children Have No Self-Compelling Power . . . pg. 98
  • III. What Is 'Nature'? . . . pg. 100
  • IV. Habit May Supplant 'Nature' . . . pg. 105
  • V. The Laying Down Of Lines Of Habit . . . pg. 107
  • VI. The Physiology Of Habit . . . pg. 111
  • VII. The Forming Of A Habit -- 'Shut The Door After You' . . . pg. 119
  • VIII. Infant 'Habits' . . . pg. 124
  • IX. Physical Exercises . . . pg. 132
• Part IV Some Habits Of Mind - Some Moral Habits . . . pg. 135
  • I. The Habit Of Attention . . . pg. 137
  • II. The Habits Of Application, Etc. . . . pg. 149
  • III. The Habit Of Thinking . . . pg. 150
  • IV. The Habit Of Imagining . . . pg. 151
  • V. The Habit Of Remembering . . . pg. 154
  • VI. The Habit Of Perfect Execution . . . pg. 159
  • VII. Some Moral Habits -- Obedience . . . pg. 160
  • VIII. Truthfulness, Etc. . . . pg. 164
• Part V Lessons As Instruments Of Education
            (first portion)
  • I. The Matter And Method Of Lessons . . . pg. 169
  • II. The Kindergarten As A Place Of Education . . . pg. 178
  • III. Further Consideration Of The Kindergarten . . . pg. 182
    (second portion)
  • IV. Reading . . . pg. 199
  • V. The First Reading Lesson . . . pg. 207
  • VI. Reading By Sight And Sound . . . pg. 214
  • VIII. Recitation . . . pg. 222
  • VIII. Reading For Older Children . . . pg. 226
    (third portion)
  • IX. The Art Of Narrating . . . pg. 231
  • X. Writing . . . pg. 233
  • XI. Transcription . . . pg. 238
  • XII. Spelling And Dictation . . . pg. 240
  • XIII. Composition . . . pg. 243
  • XIV. Bible Lessons . . . pg. 247
  • XV. Arithmetic . . . pg. 253
    (fourth portion)
  • XVI. Natural Philosophy . . . pg. 264
  • XVII. Geography . . . pg. 271
  • XVIII.History . . . pg. 279
    (fifth portion)
  • XIX. Grammar . . . pg. 295
  • XX. French . . . pg. 300
  • XXI. Pictorial Art . . . pg. 307
• Part VI The Will -- The Conscience -- The Divine Life In The Child
  • I. The Will . . . pg. 317
  • II. The Conscience . . . pg. 329
  • III. The Divine Life In The Child . . . pg. 341
  • Appendix (study questions) . . . pg. 35