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A True Good Beautiful Life

A True Good Beautiful Life

著者： Jennifer Milligan
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 Come discover Charlotte Mason's philosophy of education using the Classical ideas of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. Join us for weekly conversations and highlights with homeschooling parents, teachers, artists, entrepreneurs, and dreamers as we seek out and cultivate the True, Good, and Beautiful in our lives at home and in the classroom.2023
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  • Recovering Schole in Education

    Recovering Schole in Education
    2025/05/02
    Welcome, welcome to my last episode of this limited series podcast! It is bittersweet for me for sure! While responsibilities take me away temporarily from this full format, I do plan to continue sharing helpful tips, resources, and insights through social media and my website, so please if you don’t already, follow me on my Instagram and Facebook pages - A True Good Beautiful Life and my website: ATrueGoodBeautifulLife.com . And so to recap, the telos of this podcast is to share the pedagogical ideas of Charlotte Mason in light of the Classical ideals of the True, Good, and the Beautiful. Because Charlotte Mason belongs to the Classical tradition (the historical traditional understanding of this pedagogy), I wanted to show how these two methods can harmonize well with each other. They both emphasize paideia, which is the classic holistic approach to educating the whole child -- mind, body, and spirit. They both stress living/great books, observing and getting out in the natural world or cosmos, and thinking deeply about a feast of ideas. And while there are many other shared characteristics and goals, the one we are going to talk about today is how Charlotte Mason's motto of “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life,” marries perfectly with the traditional Classical approach to learning, nurturing character, and promoting virtue - schole. With the revival of Classical Education over the past few decades, many in that field, including my special guest today, are trying to recover this ancient ideal of schole, or restful learning. Today’s education seems to be inhabiting both ends of the spectrum of learning – a style that is too rigorous or one that is too lackadaisical. But today, I hope that we can encourage you to seek a balance by devoting some of your day engaging in schole, which will surprisingly promote wonder, love, and learning for you and your students. Back in the 4th century, Aristotle wrote that "schole [or leisure, as it it often translated], represents the highest human activity, that our labors were not what life was all about but that work was for the purpose of getting to enjoy leisure” – and that this concept would lead to human happiness (10.7). So what does this old Greek word have to do with education? Why revisit this idea from Episode 10? Because this is the final episode for the foreseeable future, I wanted to highlight and dig more thoroughly into this idea of leisure, or schole. I want to leave you with these important thoughts to contemplate as you begin your summer season and think about your upcoming school year. I want to give you permission to stop and rest and to consider cultivating this same rest in your homes and schools. I want to show you how this old Greek philosophy would make Charlotte Mason smile centuries later and how she incorporated it into her own philosophy of education. My final special guest of this season of the podcast is Dr. Christopher Perrin, and in the next hour or so, he is going to share with us his passion for education and how we can flourish as human beings through this old but forgotten concept of schole. He has recently published a book all about schole and I know you will want to read it. As you listen, see how this concept matches well with Charlotte Mason's motto on education. 10 Pedagogies of Schole: Make Haste SlowlyMuch Not ManyRepetition: The Mother of MemoryThe One Who Loves Can Sing and RememberWonder and CuriositySchole and ContemplationEmbodied and Liturgical LearningBy Teaching We LearnThe Best Teacher is a Good BookLearning in Community Favorite Resources: The Schole Way: Bringing Restful Teaching and Learning Back to School and Homeschool by Dr. Christopher Perrin"The Schole Way" Classical U online recorded course by Dr. Christopher Perrin“Schole (Restful) Learning,” Classical U online recorded course by Dr. Christopher Perrin The Good Teacher: Ten Key Pedagogical Principles That Will Transform Your Teaching by Dr. Christopher Perrin and Carrie EbenChristopher Perrin's Substack Account "Bringing Schole Back to School" article by Dr. Christopher Perrin, Substack The Age of Martha: A Call to Contemplative Learning in a Frenzied Culture by Devin O'Donnell Teaching From Rest: The Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakable Peace by Sarah Mackenzie Josef Pieper: Leisure: The Basis of Culture published by Ignatius Press Josef Pieper: Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation published by Ignatius Press Josef Pieper: An Anthology published by Ignatius Press Common Arts Education: Renewing the Classical Tradition of Training the Hand, Head, and Heart by Christopher Hall"Schole Sisters" An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents by Dr. Christopher Perrin Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition by Karen Glass The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education by Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical ...
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    1 時間 22 分
  • G. K. Chesterton & His Epic Ballad

    G. K. Chesterton & His Epic Ballad
    2025/04/04
    Today you will hear about an epic poem that you never knew you needed to know! The topic is also about a man whom you may have never heard of but is by no means insignificant in history and the literary world, past and present. His wisdom and character permeate society even today, after his death 89 years ago. G. K. Chesterton…. Do you recognize that name? Yes? No? Curious why you haven't heard of him? He was a giant of a writer during his lifetime and because he wrote so much on so many topics, he is hard to pigeonhole, as well as to argue with. Chesterton was a prolific writer, intellectual, thinker, and defender of truth and tradition, family and beauty, the poor and Christianity, education and self-sufficiency, self-employment, and independence. He wrote 100 books, hundreds of poems, contributed to 200 books, 5 novels, 5 plays, +/- 200 short stories (including the famous Father Brown mysteries), he edited his own newspaper, and wrote 4,000+ essays… (imagine writing an essay everyday for 11 years!) He wrote in all kinds of genres…. such as theology, politics, and literary criticism. His Catholic faith deeply influenced his writings and used his wit and paradox to investigate complex issues of society, morality, and religion. There are even modern societies that promote his work and ideas, like The Society of G. K. Chesterton, Chesterton Schools Network, the Chesterton Society at Hillsdale College, and the Philadelphia Chesterton Society. Chesterton influenced future greats like C. S. Lewis, Mahatma Ghandi, George Orwell, Orson Wells, Alfred Hitchcock, Earnest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and J. R. R. Tolkien, just to name a few. He is considered by some to be the best writer of the 20th century (Dale Ahlquist of the Society of G. K. Chesterton). Please sit back and enjoy my conversation with revisiting professor, Dr. Fred Putnam. Favorite Resources: The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (Ignatius Press) The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton (Seton Press) The Life of Chesterton: The Man Who Carried a Swordstick and a Pen by Holly Geirger Lee The Compete Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton (Wordsworth Classics) Chesterton Spiritual Classics Collection: Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton The Everyman Chesterton, edited and Introduced by Ian Ker (The Everyman Library series) The Golden Dragon: Alfred the Great and His Times by Alf J. Mapp The Dragon and the Raven by G. A. Henty Librivox audio recording (free)Project Gutenberg recording (free)Who is This Guy and Why Haven't I Heard of Him article by Dale AhlquistLecture 21: The Ballad of the White Horse article by Dale Ahlquist Why the World Still Needs G. K. Chesterton article by Shawn WhiteThe Society of G. K. Chesterton COMMONPLACE QUOTES “Not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.” “Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.” - regarding the US’s entrance into the Great War “A dead thing can go with the stream, only a living thing can go against it.” “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” “There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.” “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” “There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.” “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” “People forget how to be grateful unless they learn how to be humble.” “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” “The free man is not he who thinks all opinions equally true or false; that is not freedom but feeble-mindedness. The free man is he who sees the errors as clearly as he sees the truth.” “Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.” “The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy.” “If we do not clear the outline of the White Horse with unwearying care, grass will very soon choke it and we will lose it forever. It is not the moral tradition that keeps us, it is we who keep (or do not keep) it.” - Ekaterina Volonkhonskaia . . . give a 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...
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  • Poetry & Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Poetry & Shakespeare's Sonnets
    2025/03/07
    There are mysteries all around us. Like was there a real King Arthur? What happened to the colonists on Roanoke Island in 1590? Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed JFK? Is Big Foot real? While these and many other mysteries perplex us, in the literary world, the mystery of who inspired Shakespeare’s Sonnets, who is supposed to be the sonneteer, and who are the young man and dark lady in which the poems address, baffles critics and lovers of poetry to this day. But despite the musings and gallons of ink spilled in writing about these mysteries, Shakespeare’s Sonnets are a fascinating poetic creation to be admired and enjoyed simply for its beauty of language and artistic feat. Poetry is like performing magic with words. But instead of turning you invisible or levitating a chair, your heart feels pain and joy, solitude and curiosity, anger and wonder. Raise your hand if you like poetry? Raise your hand if you studied poetry in school? Raise your hand if you keep volumes of poetry in your bookshelves. I wonder if not many of you raised your hands. Is it because you were never exposed to it? Or was it because your only experience with it was to dissect it and try to figure out what the poet was meaning, only to end in frustration and confusion? Today we are going to explore the beauty of words, the world of poetry, and the magic of Shakespeare. I hope that you will come to see that poetry speaks to us, challenges us, and changes us in various and surprising ways. Poetry is a staple in a Charlotte Mason education. Charlotte Mason said that “Poetry is a criticism of life; so it is, both a criticism and an inspiration; and most of us carry in our minds tags of verse which shape our conduct more than we know” (Vol. 4, Book 2, p. 10). She recommended that children should practice reading aloud, “for the most part, in the books he is using for his term’s work. These should include a good deal of poetry, to accustom him to the delicate rendering of shades of meaning, and especially to make him aware that words are beautiful in themselves, that they are a source of pleasure, and are worthy of our honour; and that a beautiful word deserves to be beautifully said, with a certain roundness of tone and precision of utterance.” (Vol. 1, p. 227) Today I have with me a returning guest, Dr. Kathryn Smith, who was my co-director and professor at the MAT program at Templeton Honors College. You may recall her intriguing explanation of the genres of literature back on Episode 12, where we discussed the Lyric, Tragedy, Comedy and Epic forms of literature. Now you won’t find Dr. Smith on the east coast anymore but all the way across the country in Colorado, teaching Humane Letters classes. So I am excited to have her back and to talk about one of her passions and expertise, Poetry and Shakespeare’s Sonnets – those 14-line marvels that are not only works of art but windows into love, beauty, time, and humanity. Favorite Resources: A Child’s Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility edited by Allie Esiri and Rachel Kelly Favorite Poems For the Garden: A Gardener's Collection by Bushel and Peck Books Favorite Poems of the Sea: A Coastal Collection by Bushel and Peck Books Favorite Poems of the Wild: An Adventure Collection by Bushel and Peck Books Favorite Poems for Bedtime: A Child's Collection by Bushel and Peck Books Favorite Poems for Christmas: A Child's Collection by Bushel and Peck Books Poetry Patterns published by Evan-Moor Corp. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler “On Teaching Poetry” by Mary A. Woods - https://www.amblesideonline.org/PR/PR02p111TeachingPoetry.shtml“The Teaching of Poetry to Children by Mrs. J. G. Simpson - https://www.amblesideonline.org/PR/PR12p879TeachingPoetry.shtmlsee "Favorite Resources" from Episode 12 for more poetry books COMMONPLACE QUOTES “Poetry is a criticism of life; so it is, both a criticism and an inspiration; and most of us carry in our minds tags of verse which shape our conduct more than we know” - Charlotte Mason, Volume 4: Ourselves, Book 2, p. 10 “These should include a good deal of poetry, to accustom him to the delicate rendering of shades of meaning, and especially to make him aware that words are beautiful in themselves, that they are a source of pleasure, and are worthy of our honour; and that a beautiful word deserves to be beautifully said, with a certain roundness of tone and precision of utterance.” - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 227 Poetry is “the musical expression, by means of words, of thought charged with emotion . . . . the elements of poetry are thought, emotion, music; and I lay stress upon the music, because I believe it to be not only an element essential to poetry, but an element too apt to be overlooked. Poetry appeals primarily to the ear, and its ...
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    1 時間 21 分
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