Spreading the feast of the Charlotte Mason method of education through weekly podcasts. Join us for short discussions that provide information, examples, and encouragement to the homeschool parents putting CM's ideas into practice in their homes.
This one’s for you–you students, that is. Instead of focusing on the principles and feast of curriculum subjects for the teacher, this episode speaks directly to the students who are beginning their Charlotte Mason education. Maybe you have never experienced school at home, but even if you have, this new way of doing school is going to be different than any other school experience you have had. Since this education expects you to do the work of your own education, we thought it only fair for you to know a thing or two about it.
Charlotte Mason’s book for students, Ourselves, is valuable to homeschool parents and all teachers, too. This episode in the series highlighting sections of Ourselves addresses a hot topic in our culture today: justice. Specifically, what do the opinions we hold have to do with doing what is right to others?
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Ourselves (Volume 4), Book I: Part III (pp. 136-203)
“Justice requires that we should take steady care every day to yield his rights to every person we come into contact with; that is, ‘to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us…’; therefore we must show gentleness to the persons of others, courtesy to their words, and deference to their opinions, because these things are due.” (4/I/137)
“Every person has many opinions, either his own, honestly thought out, or picked up from his pet newspaper, or from his favorite companion. The person who thinks out his opinions modestly and carefully is doing his duty as truly as if he helped to save a life…it is a great part of our work in life to do our duty in our thoughts and form just opinions.” (4/I/180-181)
“The lectures we hear, the books we read, are of no use to us, except as they make us think.” (4/I/182)
“Your opinions about books and other things will very likely be wrong, and you will yourself correct them by and by when you have read more, thought more, know more. Indeed, no wise person, however old, is sure of his opinions. He holds them fast, but he holds them modestly…” (4/I/184)
From the wisdom of Charlotte Mason for homeschool families, we share a session from the ADE at Home Conference in February 2021: a long Q&A session. Here are dozens of questions of everyday school problems with attitudes and behavior, habit training, and lots and lots of discussion on scheduling and planning from the multitudinous questions we received that day.
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This episode on the series covering Charlotte Mason’s volume Ourselves addresses one aspect of the portion of “The House of Heart,” namely, loyalty. What do love and loyalty have to do with one another? How does awareness of loyalty affect our life? Emily, Nicole, and Liz discuss this topic, relevant for our students as well as their teachers.
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Ourselves (Volume 4), Book I: Part III (pp. 81-135)
“We know that we are not our own, and that according to the Loyalty within us do we fulfil ourselves.” (4/I/118)
“In wronging our friends by a failure in Loyalty, we injure ourselves far more.” (4/I/124)
“The honour due to our country requires some intelligent knowledge of her history, laws, and institutions; of her great men and her people; of her weaknesses and her strength ; and is not to be confounded with the ignorant and impertinent attitude of the Englishman or the Chinese who believes that to be born an Englishman or a Chinese puts him on a higher level than the people of all other countries; that his own country and his own government are right in all circumstances, and other countries and other governments always wrong.” (4/I/120)
“Our service to our country in these days may not mean more than that we should take a living interest in the questions that occupy the government and the social problems that occupy thinkers; and that, if we are not called upon to serve the country in general, in Parliament, for example, we should give time, labour, and means to advance whatever local administration we are connected with.” (4/I/120)
For those who try to wrap their mind about the enormous feast Charlotte Mason offered in her curriculum, today’s episode is a treasure. Emily, Nicole, and Liz read for you a hundred-year-old article that was once presented for the very purpose of giving interested educators an overview of this educational model. Enjoy listening and reading it yourself, then explore valuable links to guide you into more valuable nuggets.
