Episode 290: Bringing Older Children into the CM Method

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is a re-aired, re-visit to a common question we receive: bringing children into the Mason method from previous school experiences. What are the approaches that help children of various ages transition, what are realistic expectations, and how do we help them adjust to a different way of doing lessons?

"The success of such a school demands rare qualities in the teacher––high culture, some knowledge of psychology and of the art of education; intense sympathy with the children, much tact, much common sense, much common information, much 'joyousness of nature,' and much governing power..." (Vol. 1, p. 178)

"Our aim in Education is to give a Full Life.––We begin to see what we want. Children make large demands upon us. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Thou hast set my feet in a large room; should be the glad cry of every intelligent soul. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking––the strain would be too great––but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest. We cannot give the children these interests; we prefer that they should never say they have learned botany or conchology, geology or astronomy. The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education––but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?" (Vol. 3, p. 170-171)

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1:19.6	Welcome to Delectable Education, the podcast that spreads the Feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz Cottrille. You know once in a while we dig out an old episode to either bring to your
1:34.1	attention for the first time or refresh your memory. One truth about Charlotte Mason's
1:39.3	method is its relevance over time because of the focus on children as persons and not the novelty of the
1:46.0	curriculum. One common occurrence is families not just starting with one child in first grade,
1:53.0	but those with children of various ages who are moving to this method because they have just
1:59.7	discovered its benefits or they're beginning homeschooling
2:03.0	for the first time and bringing children out of traditional institutional settings, or sometimes just
2:08.9	starting a child who's joined the family at an older age. For whatever reason, the concern is how
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