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The Work of Education | Principle #2
"Children are Born Persons" | Principle #1
Why Use the Charlotte Mason Method?
In today's episode I'm talking about the second principle of Charlotte Mason's Twenty Principles. The Twenty Principles are the basis for her educational philosophy. Without these, we can't apply the method. The second principle is "Children are not born good or bad but with possibilities for good and evil”. Today we discuss what the principle means, and how we can apply it in our own homes. See the Show Notes for This Episode -------- Commonplace Quotes: “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21, (ESV) “The fact seems to be that children are like ourselves, not because they have become so, but because they are born so; that is, with tendencies, dispositions, towards good and towards evil, and also with a curious intuitive knowledge as to which is good and which is evil. Here we have the work of education.” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 46). "It is our business to know what parts and passions a child is made up, to discern the dangers that present themselves, and still more the possibilities of free-going in delightful paths” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 47). “His soul must be prepared for a Savior whom we all need, in whom to delight, who commands all adoration and loyalty. Teachers can present a broad feast with the best books to appeal to his desire for good, and should forego the use of textbooks, marks, and prizes that feed his desire for vanity and approval of others that trick him into learning rather than set him on a road to realize his potential for good. Her method can help his possibilities for good and hinder the evil ones.” -Liz Cottrill -------- Further Education: Home Education by Charlotte Mason A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Habit Training Resources: Laying Down the Rails by Simply Charlotte Mason Our 24 Family Ways by Clay Clarkson (*affiliate links) -------- Learn with over 100 fellow mothers in the Charlotte Mason Motherhood Community.https://www.patreon.com/charlottemasonmotherhood (Get an EXCLUSIVE monthly Q+A podcast episode and see exclusive Day in the Life videos, Lesson Plan With Me, Get free downloads and resources for meal planning, homeschool, and more!) -------- Find me on: YouTube | Instagram
In today's episode I'm talking about the first principle of Charlotte Mason's Twenty Principles. The Twenty Principles are the basis for her educational philosophy. Without these, we can't apply the method. The first principle is "Children are Born Persons". Today we discuss what the principle means, and how we can apply it in our own homes. See the Show Notes for This Episode -------- Commonplace Quotes: “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.” Ephesians 6:1, (ESV). “Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:4-5, (ESV). “What we call “Science” is too much with us. We must either reverence or despise children; and while we regard them as incomplete and undeveloped beings, who will one day arrive at the completeness of man, rather than as weak and ignorant persons, whose ignorance we must inform and whose weakness we must support, but whose potentialities are as great as our own, we cannot do otherwise than despise children, however kindly or even tenderly we commit the offence.” Children are Born Persons ,1911 by Charlotte Mason. "We believe that the first article of our P.N.E.U. educational creed—“children are born persons”—is of a revolutionary character; for what is a revolution but a complete reversal of attitude? And by the time, say, in another decade or two, that we have taken in this single idea, we shall find that we have turned round, reversed our attitude towards children not only in a few particulars, but completely.” Children are Born Persons ,1911 by Charlotte Mason. -------- Further Education: Home Education by Charlotte Mason A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay (*affiliate links) -------- Learn with over 100 fellow mothers in the Charlotte Mason Motherhood Community. https://www.patreon.com/charlottemasonmotherhood (See exclusive Day in the Life videos, Lesson Plan With Me, Get free downloads and resources for meal planning, homeschool, and more!) -------- Find me on: YouTube | Instagram
In today's episode we discuss why so many families are using the Charlotte Mason philosophy to educate their children. See the Show Notes for This Episode -------- Commonplace Quotes: Philippians 4:8 - "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things." (NKJV) “There are four means of destroying the desire for knowledge:–– (a) Too many oral lessons, which offer knowledge in a diluted form, and do not leave the child free to deal with it. (b) Lectures, for which the teacher collects, arranges, and illustrates matter from various sources; these often offer knowledge in too condensed and ready prepared a form. (c) Text-books compressed and recompressed from the big book of the big man. (d) The use of emulation and ambition as incentives to learning in place of the adequate desire for, and delight in, knowledge.” (School Education, pg. 214). "Lessons must furnish ideas “In this way: give your 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; for the child who grows up with a few dominant ideas has his self-education provided for, his career marked out”. (Home Education, pg. 174). “The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care?” (School Education). -------- Further Education: Home Education by Charlotte Mason (*affiliate link) -------- Learn with over 100 fellow mothers in the Charlotte Mason Motherhood Community. https://www.patreon.com/charlottemasonmotherhood (See exclusive Day in the Life videos, Lesson Plan With Me, Get free downloads and resources for meal planning, homeschool, and more!) -------- Find me on: YouTube | Instagram
Introducing the Charlotte Mason Motherhood Podcast! So many of us discover Charlotte Mason in the trenches of motherhood with very young children, and we simply don’t have the time to sit down and study her work. We know Mason’s methods are solid, but what does her philosophy look like day-to-day in a real home, with real kids and a real mother? This is why I created this podcast. To help teach you what I’ve learned about Mason through reading her work, but also through living it. Quotes: “We are waking up to our duties, and in proportion, as mothers become more highly educated and efficient they will doubtless feel the more strongly that the education of their children during the first six years of life is an undertaking hardly to be entrusted to any hands but their own” (Home Education, Charlotte Mason). Resources: Home Education by Charlotte Mason (*affiliate link) Join the Charlotte Mason Motherhood Community: https://www.patreon.com/charlottemasonmotherhood Visit Me Elsewhere: YouTube Channel | Instagram