School Education

Now let’s continue our study of Mason’s words from her third volume entitled School Education addressing children up to age 14. Read pp. 236-238. Narrate by interacting with the ideas Mason puts forward on the need for books and things.

Next read Ourselves Book 2 pp. 97-102. Mason wrote this volume to students in Forms 3-5.

Narrate how this reading gives background or underpinning to what you read in Home

Education. Reflect, too, on awe and reverence in relation to science.

Read from Mason’s last volume, Philosophy of Education, pp.156-157 and narrate by explaining the value of a wide curriculum as it relates to science. What thoughts do you have about the “educational rights of man”?