Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
There seems to be a common misconception that Charlotte Mason's Method is complicated and difficult to understand. While it does take time to grow in our understanding, what we find instead, at its heart, is a simple, cohesive applied philosophy that we CAN understand. Join us on the podcast today as we distill some of the barriers we place for ourselves that make it seem more difficult than it is to follow her method, and enumerate some of the key distinctives of this living method of education.
"The reader will say with truth,-" I knew all this before and have always acted more or less on these principles; " and I can only point to the unusual results we obtain through adhering not ' more or less,' but strictly to the principles and practices I have indicated." (6/19)
"With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which has not a fresh and living way of approach." (2/278)
"Whether the way I have sketched out is the right and the only way remains to be tested still more widely than in the thousands of cases in which it has been successful; but assuredly education is slack and uncertain for the lack of sound principles exactly applied." (6/19-20)
Episode 263: What Does it Mean to Trust the Method?
Episode 266: The Unity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Episode 278: Trusting the Method Through Our Curriculum
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of a Delectable Education is brought to you by Beauty and Truth Math. |
| 0:06.0 | Are you seeking to follow the Charlotte Mason method and feel lost or overwhelmed with your student's math lessons? |
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| 0:14.5 | implement the Charlotte Mason philosophy in their homes for first through sixth |
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| 0:25.9 | problems, mental math, and exam questions. They follow Charlotte Mason's mathematics streams |
| 0:31.5 | of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. and of God's character. We also want them to love exploring the ideas in math and then apply those |
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| 1:08.6 | Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte |
| 1:14.8 | Mason method. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Kattrill and Nicole Williams. |
| 1:21.0 | So the topic that we wanted to really kind of end the season with we'll have one more |
| 1:25.1 | episode that releases before we take our summer break is to be honest one that we |
| 1:30.3 | have been trying to record for the last four years. |
| 1:33.0 | Really? |
| 1:34.0 | She's completely serious. |
| 1:36.0 | We have scrapped it multiple times. |
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