Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education Book Study

Read Charlotte Mason's masterwork at your own pace, with two friends reading right alongside you.

You've heard about Charlotte Mason. Maybe you've collected the quotes on Pinterest. Maybe you've watched other homeschool moms light up when they talk about living books and narration and short lessons, and you've thought, I want that. I want whatever they've found.

So you bought Volume 6.

And then it sat on your shelf.

Because the truth is, opening a 1923 philosophy book in the middle of a homeschool morning, with the laundry going and someone asking what's for snack, is not exactly a recipe for spiritual awakening. The language is dense. The chapters are long. And the woman is thorough. By page twenty you're wondering if you missed something foundational, and by chapter four you've quietly closed the book.

I know. I've watched a hundred homeschool moms do exactly this.

That's why I made this book study.

This is Volume 6 the way it should have come the first time. Not just the book, but a complete companion study, so you can read with the warmth of someone who's already walked this road.

The heart of it is the discussion audio. When my friend Shay Kemp and I first read through Volume 6, we recorded our conversations chapter by chapter. The wrestling, the "Wait, what does she mean by that?", the laughing, the moments one of us would stop the other and say, "Okay, hold on, that line right there." It is two homeschool moms doing the actual work of understanding Mason, out loud. You get to listen in on every minute of it.

Pair that with the workbook in your hand and the audio of Volume 6 in your ears, and you've got everything you need. You won't be reading alone.

And you don't have to put your real life on hold to do it. This study is fully self-paced, with lifetime access. Start it the week your toddler finally naps consistently, or pick it up over a slow July, or read one chapter a month if that's what fits. Mason herself was a fan of short lessons. She would approve.

What's Inside?

When you join the Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education Book Study, you get the whole feast:

• The complete PDF of Volume 6, ready to read on any device, with no scrambling to find a clean copy online.
• The full audio of Volume 6, so you can listen while you fold laundry, drive carpool, or walk the dog. Mason's words, in your ears, on your terms.
• Chapter-by-chapter discussion audio with me and Shay Kemp, where we read through Volume 6 together and talk honestly about what Mason is actually saying, the parts that are hard, and the moments worth slowing down for.
• A printable workbook that walks you through every chapter with the right questions to ask, journaling space, and notes you'll actually want to keep.
• A reading plan that breaks the book into doable weekly portions so you never feel behind. (Spoiler: you can't be behind. It's self-paced.)

All of it, yours for life. Come back to it as often as you want.

Who is This For?

This is for the homeschool mom who keeps hearing about Charlotte Mason and wants in, but doesn't have endless evenings to teach herself a philosophy of education from scratch.

It's for the mom who has tried, more than once, to read Volume 6 on her own and felt like she was reading through a fog.

It's for the mom who wants the real thing, not a watered-down summary or someone else's hot take, but Mason herself, with company.

It's for the mom who is so tired of curriculum-shopping and method-collecting and feeling vaguely behind, and who wants to lay a foundation she can actually build a homeschool on.

If that's you, I made this for you.

Why Volume 6?

If you only ever read one Charlotte Mason book, this is the one. Volume 6 is her final book, written at the end of her life, where she pulls her whole philosophy together into one place. It's where she lays out the principles that have shaped every Charlotte Mason homeschool for a hundred years.

But it's also where she goes deeper than the principles. She tells you what she actually believes about children. About knowledge. About what's sacred in the work you're doing at your kitchen table. She'll change how you see your kids. She'll change how you see yourself.

By the end of this study, you won't just have read Volume 6. You'll have understood it. You'll know why Charlotte Mason said what she said, not just what she said. You'll have the language to talk about your homeschool with clarity, the principles to make decisions without second-guessing, and a quiet, settled confidence that you're not just trying to copy someone else's approach. You'll have your own.

And you'll have a study you can revisit any time you need to remember who you are and why you started.

The complete Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education Book Study is only $27.

That's the PDF of the book, the full audio, the workbook, the reading plan, and every chapter-by-chapter discussion episode with Shay and me. All of it. Yours forever.

Charlotte Mason wrote, in the last pages of Volume 6, that education should be "a universal boon like the air we breathe or the sunshine we revel in." She meant for it to be free, and feasted on, and available to every child, including yours.

I made this study so it could be available to every mom, too.

Grab your favorite beverage and your earbuds.

Life's a feast. Let's savor it.