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Originally Posted by SewingGreenMama

From everything I've read I've come to the opposite conclusion. Charlotte Mason and classical education (such as Classical Conversations) are antithetical.

Interesting . I don't know a lot about Classical Conversations. I'm on the "wisdom and virtue" side of traditional classical ed, though, and I just read a pertinent article from someone who takes a similar-ish view of classical ed: Six Reasons Why Charlotte Mason was Part of the Classical Tradition.

I suspect it depends a lot on what you mean by classical education - it's a pretty big umbrella term these days. And maybe it also depends on what you emphasize from CM - I know in discussions, classical-leaning CMers have talked about how a lot of the intro-to-CM books tend to focus on the younger years and the less structured parts of her method, and don't get into the fact that CM, in her works, advocated pretty rigorous academic work in the later years. Maybe it depends on which side of classical you draw on, and what parts of CM speak most to you, whether general you find CM and classical to be overlapping neighbors (as I have) or to be rather different things .