What role does logic play in a Charlotte Mason education? It does not show up officially in “the feast,” at least as a formal lesson, but surely logical reasoning was important to Charlotte Mason as it is to us today? Logic is as much a faculty given to a child as any other, and is not so much taught (as if the child does not already possess it) as exercised through logical studies. Mason calls Grammar “a logical study dealing with sentences and the positions that words occupy in them” (6/209). What if Grammar is more than just parsing a sentence? What if its value goes far beyond the eight parts of speech? This session will explore the vast opportunities for training the muscles of logic and reason within the realm of Grammar instruction, muscles greatly needed to think critically and wisely in our world today.

43 minute video.