RESOURCES FOR CHARLOTTE MASON'S
VOLUME 6: A PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Learn more about WWI, The Great War, through this video from Khan Academy

Ethics: Utilitarianism video by Khan Academy

Article about the book-burning at the Wartburg Festival of 1817 titled “Where They Have Burned Books, They Will End Up Burning People”

Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Amos Comenius

Poem “Christmas Eve and Easter Day” Robert Browning

Education and Empire by Richard Haldane

The Lie of the Soul – “The Story’s the Thing” article

Revolt of the Tartars by Thomas De Quincy

Take a look at Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide

Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare – link to ACT III, Scene 6, in which Timon holds a banquet for his guests

Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott

Poems “The Elixir” and “The Pulley” by George Herbert

Essay “Of Truth” by Francis Bacon

Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley

Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings by Edward Lytton

Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education by H.G. Wells

Mornings in Florence by John Ruskin

Jerusalem poem from the preface of “Milton: A Poem in Two Books” by William Blake

“May You Strain Your Wine: Horace Ode 1.11” article; read more about Horace

Check out the Parthenon Room at the British Museum on the Pericles Resources page for the Pericles Study Guide (see Lesson #5: The Great Buildings of Athens)

Take a tour of Charlotte’s House of Education, now known as the University of Cumbria at Ambleside

Read the poem “Musings Near Aquapendente” by William Wordsworth

Take a tour of Rydal Mount, the home of William Wordsworth

Article about scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose: “The Father of Modern Wi-fi”

Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education by H.G. Wells – public domain text here

Poem “Of a’ the Airts the Wind Can Blaw” by Robert Burns

Poem “Rabbi Ben Ezra” by Robert Browning

Poems “Sir Philip Sydney” and “Lament for Philip Sydney” by Matthew Roydon

Thomas De Quincey’s essay, A Sketch from Childhood – public domain text here (pg 69)

Learn more about Johann Friedrich Herbart here

See the book that Charlotte quotes from in the “dry light of Scottish humor”: Herbartian Psychology Applied to Education by John Adams here

Across the Bridges by Alexander Patterson – public domain text here

The Memoirs of Count Witte – public domain text here

Read about the Bushido Code: The Eight Virtues of the Samurai

Poem “The Statue and the Bust” by Robert Browning – see statue of Ferdinand I below 

Poem “In Memoriam” by Alfred Tennyson

See more resources for Macbeth on the Shakespeare Resources Page under the Tragedies tab

Book: Karl Marx and Modern Socialism by Frank Reyner Salter – public domain text here

Learn more about Communism and Karl Marx in this video by Khan Academy

Poem “She was a Phantom of Delight” by William Wordsworth

• • Principles #11, #12, and #13: The Science of Relations
  • Principles #14 and #15: Narration and a Single Reading

Selection from the poem “Epipsychidion” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (full length here)

“A Liberal Education: Theory” by Charlotte Mason and “A Liberal Education: Practice” by Agnes Drury – both as one article here