Welcome to A TRUE GOOD BEAUTIFUL LIFE podcast!
Here we will discuss all things Charlotte Mason in light of the ideas of the TRUE, the GOOD, and the BEAUTIFUL! I am your host, Jennifer Milligan, and throughout this series I will share with you how to find and cultivate various elements of TRUTH, GOODNESS and BEAUTY in our homes and classrooms through conversations with homeschooling parents and classroom teachers; interviews with experts, entrepreneurs, and artists; discussions regarding the great books, great minds, and great resources; fun travel and field trip summaries; and practices and creative experiences that embody the TRUE, the GOOD, and the BEAUTIFUL life. Over 100 years ago, British educator, Charlotte Mason, declared that, "Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life," and so today, I hope you will join me on this adventure in education.
ON THIS EPISODE
Occupational Therapist and good friend, Sarah Collins, of Homeschool OT , sits down with me to talk during our TRUTH segment about the first tool of education that Charlotte Mason gives parents and teachers -- circumstance, or better known as Atmosphere. We touch on topics like alerting our sensory systems, Morning Time, natural environments, and proprioception! Don't know what that is? Neither did I!
For our segment on the GOOD, I share with you 4 things that can destroy your child's love for knowledge -- too many oral lessons, too many lectures, poor textbooks, and grades and competition.
And lastly, in our segment on the BEAUTIFUL, I get to talk to you about Picture Study, one of my favorite things to teach!
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COMMONPLACE QUOTES
. . . about the child hangs, as the atmosphere around a planet, the thought-environment he lives in. And here he derives those enduring ideas which express themselves as a life-long kinship towards sordid or things lovely, things earthly or divine." - Karen Andreola, A Charlotte Mason Companion, p. 51
Let them learn from first-hand sources of information––really good books, the best going, on the subject they are engaged upon. Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with a warm diluent at the lips of their teacher. The teacher's business is to indicate, stimulate, direct and constrain to the acquirement of knowledge, but by no means to be the fountain-head and source of all knowledge in his or her own person. - Charlotte Mason, Volume 3: School Education, p. 162
Treat children in this reasonable way, mind to mind; not so much the mind of the teacher to that of the child,––that would be to exercise undue influence but the minds of a score of thinkers who meet the children, mind to mind, in their several books, the teacher performing the graceful office of presenting the one enthusiastic mind to the other. - Charlotte Mason, Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education, p. 261
(a) The children, not the teachers, are the responsible persons; they do the work by self-effort. (b) The teachers give sympathy and occasionally elucidate, sum up or enlarge, but the actual work is done by the scholars. - Charlotte Mason, Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education, p. 6
We cannot measure the influence that one or another artist has upon the child's sense of beauty, upon his power of seeing, as in a picture, the common sights of life; he is enriched more than we know in having really looked at even a single picture. - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 309
. . . give a child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information. - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 174
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