It’s tentative, but we are marking August 28th as the release date for Consider This. There is still some work to do, but we think we can be ready by then. I hope you are as excited as we are.
If you haven’t seen the book trailer, you can view it on the website, along with some kind comments from Michelle Miller of TruthQuest History.
I’m so glad the book will be available soon. I’m really looking forward to sharing it.
Karen Glass
Each week brings Consider This closer to publication, and I am getting excited about having it finished and available. If you visit the site now, you’ll find that mundane filler-cover has been replaced with the real cover, and I am very happy with the finished product, the joint effort my husband and daughter.
I’ve also added a review by a dear friend who read the first manuscript for me, Anne White. She has shared a few tidbits and insights from Consider This that I hope will pique your interest.
I hope that the next update will bring you the news of a definite release date. I’ll send it out just as soon as I know it myself!
Thank you for your interest–I really can’t wait to share the finished book with you all.
Karen Glass
Anne is long-time friend and colleague, and it’s been very great privilege to work with her as part of the Advisory at amblesideonline.org . I’ve visited her home and chatted with her in person on a few wonderful occasions as well. She was one of my earliest readers, and asked me to share this review here.
Review of Consider This
by Anne White
It has been my privilege to have worked with Karen Glass as a fellow CM homeschooler and friend for many years. During that time, she became our “go-to person” on questions of classical education, and she often shared interesting parallels to Charlotte Mason’s writings that she had found in her own wide reading and research. Many of us hoped that she would someday be able to put her insights together in a book. I was delighted to be able to preview a copy of Consider This, which gets its title from Charlotte Mason’s response to a request for educational advice. Miss Mason responded, “The answer cannot be given in the form of ‘Do’ this and that, but rather as an invitation to ‘Consider’ this and that; action follows when we have thought duly.” It is a good title for a book that asks us to consider the deep foundations and traditions behind Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, and then (as Charlotte Mason and the classic educators would thoroughly approve), challenges us to put those ideas into practice. Karen considers the classical ideal of the unity of knowledge, reflects on what happened to that ideal, and offers (with Mason) suggestions on how we might attempt to reclaim it. Continue reading Review by Anne White
With the hope of a release date before the end of August, I feel like my eyes are watching the clock and calendar anxiously. There are so many little details. I had hoped to share the final cover design by now, but that is still a couple of weeks away. After the cover is done, I hope to have a short video preview to share. Meanwhile, I’m working on editing so that the final manuscript will be as error-free as possible.
I’ve uploaded one new article, The Teacher as a Philosopher, and I hope to add a few more in the coming weeks. I’ve also added some kind commentary from Sonia Shafer of Simply Charlotte Mason to the main page.
Thank you for you interest in Consider This. I am really looking forward to sharing the finished book with you very soon!
Karen Glass
When we consider what is required of us when we take up the task of educating our children, donning the cloak of a philosopher is not generally at the top of the list. More likely, becoming a philosopher is not on the list at all. Nevertheless, Charlotte Mason twice suggests that one of the roles of a teacher is that of a philosopher. Continue reading The Teacher as a Philosopher
I’ve added a new article to the site, updated from one written long ago, The Still Progress of Growth. I continue to be amazed at how similar my thinking today is to what it was over ten years ago.
The editing of the book manuscript is about 1/2 complete, and work is underway on the cover design. I hope the next update will include the reveal of the finished book cover.
I will have the privilege of visiting Charlotte Mason’s home region in Ambleside, England this week for the first time. How amazed she would be to know that her work goes on, and her ideas are appreciated and shared over 90 years after her death.
Thank you for you continued interest–I ‘m looking forward to sharing the finished book with you all.
Karen Glass
Progress! It’s a modern word to match a modern concept. Observable, calculable, measurable, definable, quantifiable progress! We measure our economic progress from every conceivable angle–new housing starts, consumer confidence, and gross national product. We measure our technological progress–this model is faster, bigger, more powerful, multi-functional. We measure our scientific progress–we gather vast quantities of data, calculate percentages and ratios, and deliver our results as statistics and percentages. Wherever we are today, we know that progress is being made, and tomorrow or next week, or next year, we will be further along the road. Progress means that we are going somewhere! Continue reading The Still Progress of Growth
Thanks to everyone who has already stopped by this work-in-progress to see what is going on. I’m very pleased to have finally written the book I’ve had in mind for over ten years, and I hope it’s a better book because it’s had so long to simmer.
In the next few weeks, I expect to update the look of the website, share the actual cover design, and hopefully nail down a definite release date for the book. In the meantime, I will gradually be adding content that might be of interest. I’ve posted an article and a couple of reviews to begin with.
Thanks to all who have shown interest in Consider This–I am looking forward to hearing what you think!
Karen
Kathy at Piney Woods Homeschool is another early reviewer! Take a look.
In Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, Karen Glass explains the choices facing all of us who have the responsibility of teaching children. When we choose to present or not present certain topics, even more so when we choose to present topics in particular ways, we are making philosophical choices whether we know it or not.
For a while, in 2002 and 2003, I published an “e-zine” called Magnanimity. This slightly-edited article appeared in the first issue, to explain the name. A dozen years later, I am astonished by two things–that I feel exactly the same way about education now as I did then, and that I feel equally in need of improving my own.
WHY “MAGNANIMITY” ?
Why call a newsletter by a name that’s difficult to pronounce and probably
hard to remember as well? The title was the suggestion of a friend and
associate, but it perfectly conveys the spirit behind this venture.
“Magnanimity” is composed of two roots. “Magna” means “great or large,” and
“animus” means “life” or “spirit.” Thus, “magnanimity” refers to a “large
spirit” or “greatness of life.” Continue reading Magnanimity
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