Charlotte Mason Says

Chapter IX – The Culture of Character: The Treatment of Defects The ultimate object of education – ‘The defects of their qualities’ – Children with a defect – A malicious child – Special treatment – Moral ailments need prompt attention – Automatic brain-action – One custom overcometh another – A material register of educational efforts – Mother-love is not sufficient for child-training The text can be found here and here.

Chapter VIII – The Culture of Character: Parents as Trainers How far does heredity count? – For education, children want only opportunity – An experiment in art education – Character is an achievement – Two ways of preserving sanity – The Plausible reasons for doing nothing towards character training – But the laws by which body and mind flourish, revealed by science – The race is advancing – The duty of cherishing a lovely family trait – Distinctive qualities require culture – Four conditions of culture – Exercise – Nourishment – Change – Rest – Work, and waste of brain tissue, necessary – Danger of eccentricity – Causes of oddity in children – The dreariness of a motiveless life – We must save our ‘splendid failures’ The text can be found here and here.Sponsored By: Potential Sponsor: Here is a place we can put a specific advertising message from you. It will display on the Episode you choose to sponsor. It can be the same as what we say on the podcast, or different. That depends on what you want. Promo Code: HiGoogle

MATURE CONTENT ALERT - The Wire, season 4, episode 7 - Teacher uses dice to teach math/statistics/probability Pushing yourself to your highest potential - getting into med school - Weight Loss for Busy Physicians [Waverley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_(novel) by Sir Walter Scott Chapter 3 - Education Lord Byron's "Grandmother's Review, the British" “Of Waverley himself we shall say but little, as his character is far too common to need a comment; we can only say that his wanderings are not gratuitous, nor is he wavering and indecisive only because the author chooses to make him so. Every feature in his character is formed by education, and it is to this first source that we are constantly referred for a just and sufficient cause of all the wandering passions as they arise in his mind." Jean Jacques Rousseau on natural education 2 Peter 1:5-7 - For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. Luke 3:4-6 - As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’” Isaiah 40:3-5 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Walking Lessons

Chapter 7 - The Parent as Schoolmaster 'The schoolmaster will make him sit up!' - Why this, left to the schoolmaster - His successes, with children who have been trained at home - The habits of school-life are mechanical - Mental 'sprawling' exemplified in 'Edward Waverley' - Parents are apt to leave training to the schoolmaster - We are not meant to grow up in a state of Nature - The first function of the parent is that of discipline - Education is a discipline - Discipline is not punishment - How disciples are lured - Steady progress on a careful plan

In which we sit down and discuss Chapter 6

Ch 6 - Parents as Inspirers: Primal Ideas derived from Parents The chief thing we have to do - Two ideas of God fitting for children - 'We outh to work slowly up through the human side'; why not? - Logical certainty and moral right - The conscientious Jew and the Crucifixion - The patriotic Jew and the Crucifixion - Primal ideas derived from parents - First approaches to God - Communing out loud before the children - A child's gratitude - Archaic forms in children's prayers - 'The shout of a King' - 'The fight of Christ against the devil' - 'Oh dear! it's very hard to do God's work!' The text can be found here and here.

Do we really become more conservative with age? - The Guardian Do children take their parents' beliefs? - The Atlantic Millennials affected majorly by the Great Recession of 2008 - CNN Incident between teen in MAGA hat and Native American with drum - news.com Flat Earth Debate on KLBJ in Austin Teaching children how vs. letting them explore - MIT.edu Watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become deeds. Watch your deeds. They become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Character is everything. (Source) GK Chesterton on Fairy Tales (wikiquotes) Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear. Memories of Heaven by very young children (HuffPost) Psalm 32:7 - Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Childhood experiences affecting adulthood - Learning-mind.com

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Chapter 5 - Parents as Inspirers: The Things of the Spirit Parents, revealers of God to their children - They have to fortify them against doubt - Three ways - The first, unfair - 'Evidences' are not proofs - The outlook upon current thought - 'Freewill' in thought - Preparation - Reservation as regards science - Knowledge is progressive - Children should learn some laws of thought - To look at thoughts as they come - The appeal of the children - 'My hiding-place' - The mind of the child is good ground - Children suffer from a deep-seated discontent The text can be found here and here.

This is Part 2 of the discussion of Chapter 4. We jump right in where we left off in the last episode, so if you haven't listened to episode 10 yet, you should do so now so you aren't lost and confused. Per usual, but we're blaming the holiday maddness that is currently sweeping through our family, show notes will be released in the near(ish) future.

This is Part 1 of the discussion of Chapter 4. We are quite long winded, so we figured cutting us off close to halfway would be good for everyone. Dating a few people: 1842-1923 - Charlotte Mason 1746-1827 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi 1782-1852 - Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel 1803-1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1822-1888 - Matthew Arnold Bret Weinstein at Evergreen State College Speakers protested at college campuses against right-wing speakers In general Common Core FAQ Wrinkle in Time – on "It" planet - neighborhood sameness. This is an extremely poor video, but the only one I could find. Good Will Hunting - bar scene with grad student. Quoted part begins around 1:20 Warning There is a curse word. For fun... Here's Peyton Manning's bad QB slide

Chapter 4 - Parents as Inspirers: The Life of the Mind Grows upon Ideas Summary of preceding chapter – Educational conceptions of the past – Pestalozzi's theory – Froebel's theory – The kindergarten a vital conception – But science is changing front – Is education formative? - The individual not at the mercy of empiries – 'Education' an inadequate word - 'Bringing-up' - An adequate definition – Method a way to an end – The life of the mind grows upon ideas – What is an idea? – Rise and progress of an idea – Genesis of an idea – An idea may exist as an appetency – A child draws inspiration from the casual life around him – Order and progress of definite ideas – Platonic doctrine of ideas – Ideas, alone, matter in education – How the educational formula should run – The ‘infallible reason’ – What is it? The text can be found here and here.

Adolf Monod (wiki) French clergyman Charlotte Mason's works in Modern English - Parents & Children ch 3 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Declaration of Independence Timeline of scientific discoveries in the 1800's (wiki) Pandora's Box (wiki) Dr. Henry Maudsley (wiki) Intersectionality & identity politics Nature / Nurture (Simply Psychology) Los Alamos (wiki) Academic early learning - Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm (Psychology Today) Why pushing kids to learn too much too soon is counterproductive (Washington Post) cutting shop class and home economics (Forbes) Teenage sleep schedules (Nationwide Children's) A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle