Episode 120: Towards an Authentic Interpretation

Charlotte Mason’s method of education was taught over a hundred years ago and A Delectable Education’s podcast this week reiterates its relevance for the twenty-first century educator and student. After an introduction by Emily, Liz, and Nicole stating their reasons for holding to Mason’s philosophy, Art Middlekauff reads his own criteria for determining which new ideas and applications are authentic to her method and how and why to dismiss those that are not.

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“We believe that what will ultimately survive all changes and chances will be [Charlotte Mason’s] philosophy, and our danger at the present moment is the limiting of it to fit current conditions of thought and practice of life generally, that of “schooling” in particular.” –Elsie Kitching

“Great secrets of nature, for example, would seem to be imparted to minds already prepared to receive them, as, for example, that of the ‘ions’ or ‘electrons’ of which that we call matter is said to consist. For this sort of knowledge also is of God, and is, I believe, a matter of revelation, given as the world is prepared to receive it.” (4/86-87)