The Threefold Way of Learning: Atmosphere, Discipline, Life

Patterns for Life audio Chapter 3

Chapter 3 of Patterns for Life: An Orthodox Reflection on Charlotte Mason Education

'We cannot commit a greater offence than to main or crush, or subvert any part of a person,' is another way of saying, 'But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.' This by no means relieves us of our duties as parents and educators to train and teach our children in the way that they should go; rather it ups the ante for us not to settle with the methods devised by the secular world. After all, the goal of the secular education system is to produce a product. Our goals are to become and to raise saints.

~Patterns for Life, p. 40