CH062: Book Recommendations with Virginia Lee - Simplified Organization Audio Blog: quick actions, organized attitudes
Summary: <a href="http://www.simplyconvivial.com/ch-season10">Season 11 : Good Books to Read</a><br> <br> Listen:<br> Mystie: Alright, well, welcome to the first episode of season 11. This season I’m going to be recording some past book review posts from Simply Convivial, so I thought it’d be fun for Virginia Lee and I to do some quick book recommendations for the first episode. Hey, Virginia Lee.<br> Virginia Lee: Hey, Mystie. Good morning.<br> Mystie: So, we both brought two books to recommend and not necessarily very favorites, but just ones that we thought were good to recommend that might be helpful and that have been helpful for us.<br> Virginia Lee: Well, I think that’s helpful because especially with homeschool moms, you know, we’re all readers. So, if it’s the same recommendations that you can get anywhere else it’s nice to have the recommendations that you haven’t heard of or that you’ve only heard a little bit about. And, then you can buy a new book. So, which ones did you pick, Mystie?<br> Mystie: So, the first one I picked was, <a href="https://amzn.to/2K7hHKi">The Art of Teaching</a> by Gilbert Highet.<br> Virginia Lee: You know, I have heard of that because Cindy Rollins had recommended that also.<br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Teaching-Gilbert-Highet/dp/0679723145/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1524524274&sr=8-4&keywords=art+of+teaching&linkCode=li3&tag=sonews-20&linkId=b8843b4f923980b3e96ad1725bb4984c" target="_blank"></a><br> Mystie: Yes. I’m pretty sure that’s why I bought it at first, and you know, it’s one of those ones that then sat on my shelf for forever. It was written in 1950. It is about teaching in a time where the scientific materialistic vision was really gaining traction, and really the whole thing is about the human aspect; learning is the child/student bringing himself to bear and teaching is the teacher bringing himself. And, one of the sections I have marked, “That’s why it’s exhausting. It is legitimately exhausting to teach, and this is why, so just expect it.”<br> Virginia Lee: And that’s good because I think sometimes we can go around in our minds thinking, ‘OK, how can I make this not [this] way? It shouldn’t be like [this], I’m doing something wrong.’<br> Mystie: Right.<br> Virginia Lee: And, it’s good to just know, “No, that makes sense.”<br> Mystie: You’re not doing something wrong because you’re tired at the end. You’re doing something right.<br> Virginia Lee: So then it’s like, ‘I’m still tired but man it’s a weight off my shoulders.’ Oh, wonderful. I’m going to have to write this down. That’s very interesting, and I like that it really talks to us as the teacher, because a lot of education books that we read are really focusing on stuff with the children also.<br> Mystie: Right.<br> Virginia Lee: And, you’re not necessarily getting what the posture of the teacher is, quite as much.<br> Mystie: So, this quote is on the back of my book, and I thought it was so good. So, he says, “Teaching is not like inducing a chemical reaction: it is much more like painting a picture or making a piece of music, or on a lower level like planting a garden or writing a friendly letter. You must throw your heart into it, you must realize that it cannot be done all by formulas or you will spoil your work, and your pupils, and yourself.<br> Virginia Lee: That’s beautiful.<br> Mystie: So, how about you? What’s one of your books?<br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Consider-This-Charlotte-Classical-Tradition/dp/1500808032/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&qid=1524524369&sr=8-1&keywords=consider+this&linkCode=li3&tag=sonews-20&linkId=79f4f69c85a162bb22b89edbf5f99b76" target="_blank"></a><br> Virginia Lee: One of mine is <a href="https://amzn.to/2HUj5zj">Consider This</a> by Karen Glass. And, it was just a turning point in my mind of really putting together the synthetic learning and the analytical learning,
