S7E96: Morning Time for Moms Part 5 with Elaine Shutt
I know you may bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. What I complain of is that we do not bring our horse to the water. We give him miserable little text-books, mere compendiums of facts, which he is to learn off and say and produce at an examination; or we give him various knowledge in the form of warm diluents, prepared by his teacher with perhaps some grains of living thought to the gallon. And all the time we have books, books teeming with ideas fresh from the minds of thinkers upon every subject to which we can wish to introduce children.
Charlotte Mason, School Education
Show Summary:
- On The New Mason Jar podcast this week, Cindy and Dawn sit down for another conversation in our Morning Time for Moms series, this time with homeschooling mom Elaine Shutt
- How Elaine first came to learn about Charlotte Mason and her methods
- How Elaine was educated herself and what her reading life was like
- What Elaine’s college and early teaching experience was like
- How she fit in reading about educational philosophy when her children were young
- Elaine’s story of God’s provision and leadership in her current teaching setup
- Some ways she adds Charlotte Mason elements into her classroom
- The ways Elaine has made time for self-education in different seasons of life
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Books and Links Mentioned:
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God” by Simone Weil
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We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of Mathematics; that, as Ruskin points out, two and two make four and cannot conceivably make five, is an inevitable law. It is a great thing to be brought into the presence of a law, of a whole system of laws, that exist without our concurrence,––that two straight lines cannot enclose a space is a fact which we can perceive, state, and act upon but cannot in any wise alter, should give to children the sense of limitation which is wholesome for all of us, and inspire that sursum corda which we should hear in all natural law.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education
Mathematics are to be studied for their own sake and not as they make for general intelligence and grasp of mind.
