In the car
Listen to a living audiobook, a composer’s work, Scripture, a hymn, or a child-friendly history podcast. Ask for one favorite part when you arrive.
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A living education
for every family.
Homeschooling, public school, private school, or something in between—your home can still be an atmosphere of truth, goodness, beauty, wonder, discipleship, and living ideas.
This is not only for homeschoolers
Education is larger than
the hours called “school.”
Children are always forming relationships—with God, people, ideas, creation, beauty, work, and the stories that help them understand the world. A living education can grow in the ordinary places of family life.
This library is a free ministry of Fontes Academy: practical training, carefully chosen links, printable tools, and small next steps for parents who want to disciple children toward wisdom and wonder.
01 CHOOSE YOUR DOORWAY
What do you need today?
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I’m brand new
Begin with a gentle four-week path. No curriculum overhaul required.
Start simply →02I want to understand
Meet Charlotte Mason, her Christian vision, and the ideas beneath the methods.
Explore the philosophy →03Teach me narration
Learn Read → Close → Tell → Wonder, with scripts and creative ways to begin.
Open the narration guide →04Bring beauty home
Try picture study, hymns, poetry, nature, handicrafts, living books, and more.
Browse the subjects →05Something isn’t working
Use thoughtful questions to diagnose attention, resistance, overwhelm, and dry lessons.
Find practical help →The feast fits real life
Four small places
to begin this week.
Around the table
Put one beautiful question beside dinner: What surprised you today? What was brave, true, beautiful, or worth remembering?
Ten quiet minutes
Look closely at one painting, read one poem aloud twice, sing one hymn stanza, or step outside and notice three living things.
Before bed
Read one excellent story without worksheets. Close the book and invite: “Tell me what you remember.”
02 FREE SHELVES TO EXPLORE
LIVING BOOKS & CURRICULUM
AmblesideOnline
A large, free Charlotte Mason curriculum and library of original writings.
Visit source ↗LISTEN IN THE CARLibriVox
Free public-domain audiobooks for family listening and living-book discovery.
Browse audiobooks ↗PICTURE STUDYNational Gallery of Art
Open-access masterworks families can look at slowly and discuss together.
Explore art ↗HYMNSHymnary
Search hymn texts, tunes, history, and recordings in a vast hymn archive.
Find a hymn ↗POETRYPoetry Foundation
A searchable collection for finding one poem worth reading aloud together.
Find a poem ↗DEEPER STUDYCharlotte Mason Poetry
Original documents and thoughtful work on Mason’s philosophy and Christian faith.
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