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Congratulations, Megan. We hope you enjoy your Teacher Training Video.
~Liz, Emily & Nicole
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Episode 82: Listener Q&A #18
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“Such prescribed reading should be a real change from ordinary school work, should be very moderate in quantity, and its quite optional character especially enforced.” (Holiday Tasks, PR)
“In this way. School work leaves so little leisure for girls or boys to be occupied with anything beyond their immediate school duties, and these become more and more absorbing as they get older. This is quite right, because the main object of school days is to enable one to become acquainted with those things which make life worth living and enable us to make the lives of others fuller and happier. But in acquiring this knowledge, there is little leisure left to think of other people, and this is a great danger in this egotistical age.” (Useful Holidays, PR)
Episode 81: Sloyd, An Interview with Brittney McGann
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Paper Sloyd: A Handbook for Primary Grades
The Teacher’s Handbook of Sloyd
Mathematics: An Instrument For Living Teaching
Books Charlotte Mason used for teaching Sloyd:
- Paper Folding by H.G. Paterson
- Paper Modelling by M. Swannell (or direct from Living Library Press here)
- Cardboard Modelling by W. Heaton (or direct from Living Library Press here)
Webinars, Teacher Training Videos, and a New Site!
For a year and a half, A Delectable Education has been offering weekly podcasts to help equip and educate parents and teachers interested in the Charlotte Mason Method of education. These podcasts have had the goal of sharing Mason’s ideas, principles and practices in the wide variety of subjects offered in her curriculum. This past winter, three webinars were offered to provide more in depth consideration of some areas of study, to show visually what is difficult to display in words only on a podcast. We promised that we would do our best to make these available to the public for purchase this spring, and, the time has come! Keeping Time: History Charts and Tools, presented by Emily Kiser; Nature Study: Object Lessons and Special studies, presented by Nicole Williams; and Lesson Planning for a Living Education presented by Liz Cottrill are all available under the “Teacher Tools” tab.
A Delectable Education is pleased to announce the launch of our new website with expanded opportunities for you to further your education in the Charlotte Mason method. In addition to our recorded webinars, we are delighted to offer other additional teacher training videos now also available for download. These are all presentations that we and our friends have presented at Charlotte Mason education conferences that you may now have the opportunity to enjoy and learn from in the convenience of your own home. This is only the beginning of teacher training instruction resources ADE will continue to offer:
The Twenty Principles by Art Middlekauff
Mathematics, a Mountain Perspective by Richele Baburina
Science: a Vast and Joyous Realm by Nicole Williams
Charlotte Mason History for the Twenty-First Century by Emily Kiser
Vision for Children: Cultivating Moral Imagination through Living Books by Liz Cottrill
Now through the end of the month of May we are offering a special price on the purchase of all 8 Teacher Training Videos. This bundle includes each of the 3 webinars we broadcast this winter/spring and the additional 5 videos available now. Please visit adelectableeducation.com to see this offer and all the new material on the site!
Episode 80: Charlotte Mason through High School
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“The work of the Parents’ Union School led up naturally, and without any real break, to the larger life of the public school, for which the children by their early training were well fitted, as it seemed merely the stepping from one classroom to another, so comprehensive and intelligent had been the previous preparation.” (In Memoriam, p. 45)
“The history studies of Forms V and VI (ages 15-18) are more advanced and more copious and depend for illustration upon readings in the literature of the period…But any sketch of the history teaching in a given period depends upon the ‘literature’ set; for plays, novels, essays, ‘lives,’ poems, are all pressed into service and where it is possible, the architecture, painting, etc., which the period produced.” (Vol. 6, pp. 176-78)
“I feel one of the joys of the Sixth Form is that there the girls can go on with the subjects they are most keenly interested in–subjects they have been longing to have time for–and freedom of choice is one of its characteristics…[they] learn how little they know–what fields of knowledge there are of which they know.” (A P.U.S. Headmistress, writing in the Parents’ Review)
“But the people themselves begin to understand and to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books. The more of a person we succeed in making a child, the better will he both fulfil his own life and serve society.” (Vol. 6, p. 3)
“All callings have one thing in common––they are of use; and, therefore, a person may prepare for his calling years before he knows what it is. What sort of person is of use in the world?” (Vol. 4, Book I, p. 205)
“The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education––but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” (Vol. 3, pp. 170-71)
You Can Teach Your Child Successfully, Ruth Beechick
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