HomeThe Art of Narration
What is “Narration”? How do you apply it within a Home-School context? "Narration is the cornerstone of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of education." Penny Gardner. "The simplest way of dealing with a paragraph of a chapter is to require the child to narrate its contents after a single reading. One reading, however slow, should be made the condition.” Charlotte Mason
Children must do the work for themselves. They must read
(listen to) the given passages and tell back what they have
read (heard). (Charlotte Mason) She terms this the “Act of
Knowing”.
Education demands a conscious mental effort, from the scholar, the mental effort of telling again that which has been read or heard. That is how we all learn, we tell again the matter we wish to retain.
The method is as old as the mind of man, the distressful fact is that it has been made so little use of in general education.
(Charlotte Mason)
