At first take, Mason’s eleventh and twelfth principles seem a little obvious. We’ve been studying hard this season and we know some stuff! We know children need living ideas and to be allowed to make connections on their own, that they need natural relationships with a wide array of things.

But today, I want to ask: why. Why does it have to be done this way? Why these living ideas?

Let’s figure out how living ideas and the science of relations are necessary for a proper education. Together, they form Mason’s captain idea of education, and by adhering to them, we’ll find we’re working with the grain of truth, goodness, and beauty towards virtue and wisdom in our homeschools.

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