
S8E102: Morning Time for Moms, Part 6, with Megan Graham
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
C. S. Lewis, from An Experiment in Criticism, p. 140-141
Show Summary:
- Welcome back to The New Mason Jar and another episode in our Morning Time for Moms self-education series
- Today Cindy and Dawn chat with Megan Graham, homeschooling mother of nine, two of whom she has graduated
- How Megan came to learn about the philosophy of Charlotte Mason
- What Megan’s own education was like and what her perception of learning was as a young person
- How did your idea of education shift, and were there any books that helped you form new ideas about education?
- How does Megan build in times to read in the midst of the busy seasons of life
- What Megan is currently reading
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Books and Links Mentioned:
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite
A DC Smith Investigation series by Peter Granger
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Beyond Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins
Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman
Nature Talks by Alice Erwin
Flavia De Luce Series by Alan Bradley
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
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As for the employment of authority, the highest art lies in ruling without seeming to do so.
Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children, p. 17-18