Episode 288: Finding Balance for Our Student
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The Charlotte Mason Method is an all-encompassing method of education for all of life, and therefore, there are many ways we can fall out of balance as we apply it in our homes and schools. Today, we are discussing the pitfalls of imbalance we face as relates to our students doing the work of their education. We discuss finding the balance between challenging our students but not pushing them, how the wide curriculum meets them where they are at without pigeonholing them, and how we teachers must practice Masterly Inactivity to allow them to do the work of their own education.
“A Code of Education in the Gospels, expressly laid down by Christ. It is summed up in three commandments … Take heed that ye OFFEND not––DESPISE not––HINDER not––one of these little ones.” (1/12)
“Therefore we do not feel it is lawful in the early days of a child's life to select certain subjects for his education to the exclusion of others; … but we endeavour that he shall have relations of pleasure and intimacy established with as many as possible of the interests proper to him; not learning a slight or incomplete smattering about this or that subject, but plunging into vital knowledge, with a great field before him which in all his life he will not be able to explore.” (3/223)
“Our deadly error is to suppose that we are his showman to the universe; and, not only so, but that there is no community at all between child and universe unless such as we choose to set up.” (3/188)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Awaken, a Living Books conference. |
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| 1:13.4 | Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte |
| 1:18.0 | Mason Method. I am Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Katrill and Nicole Williams. |
| 1:24.8 | In Charlotte Mason's short synopsis, that is what sometimes is referred to as the 20 |
| 1:29.5 | principles, she tells us in point nine that our children are naturally adapted to do the work |
| 1:35.7 | of their education. And then later in point 10, she tells us that they must do it or what they |
| 1:42.9 | receive is of little value to them. |
| 1:45.7 | But we often prevent them from doing the work of their education by reading to them |
| 1:53.1 | when they can read some of it or all of it alone or not challenging them with work that's |
| 1:59.8 | appropriate to their level because we combine them |
| 2:03.9 | with younger students or maybe older students, you know, where they're not doing the work that |
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