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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
  • A Jane Austen Book Chat, Pt. 2

    A Jane Austen Book Chat, Pt. 2
    2025/02/07
    Welcome back to the second part of our discussion of Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice! I have my good friend Heather Usher back with us to finish talking about the signifcance of "countenance" in Jane's famous novel, what are entails, the life of a governess, using foils, and examining Austen's prayer life. Pride and Prejudice is a book about love, societal expectations, growth in sound judgement and in self-knowledge. It is a canvas of human failings and how they sometimes triumph over them. The book looks into deep questions like - “Can an unworthy man have a worthy friend?” “How far can a person be deceived?” “How influential are one's parents?” “Should one marry for love or for security?” “How does one’s behavior affect one’s family and friends?” “Can good come from evil?” “What does one do with difficult truths?” “What does Christian charity look like?” “What can you learn from retrospection?” “How can we judge what others are feeling?” “What is it to act morally?” “Is strong physical attraction the same as love?” “What is a proper sense of pride?” “What is the value of a ‘marriage of true minds’?” It's a fascinating study on society and humanity. I hope you will conisder reading this masterpiece! Favorite Resources: Praying with Jane: 31 Days Through the Prayers of Jane Austen by Rachel DodgeThe Prayers of Jane Austen published by Harvest House PublishersEight Women of Faith by Michael A. G. HaykinThe Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen annotated and edited by David M. ShapardPride and Prejudice: An Annoated Edition edited by Patricia Meyer SpacksJane Austen: A Life by Claire TomalinJane Austen's Country Life by Deirdre Le FayeMiniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter J. LeithartBBC's 1995 mini series "Pride and Prejudice"Joe Wright's 2005 movie "Pride and Prejudice"Ellie Dashwood's YouTube Channel on Classic Literature and HistoryTea with Jane Austen by Kim WilsonTea with Jane Austen by Pen VolgerCooking with Jane Austen & Friends by Laura BoyleJane Austen's Talbe: Recipes Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen by Robert Tuesley AndersonA Jane Austen Christmas: Regency Christmas Traditions by Maria GraceThe Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England by Margaret C. SullivanA Jane Austen Devotional by Steffany WoolseyAn Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan (fiction)Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan (fiction)These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan (fiction)The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James (fiction)So Jane: Crafts and Recipes for an Austen-Inspired Life by Hollie KeithThe Making of Pride and Prejudice by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth About the World's Most Intriguing Literary Heroine by Patrice HannonWhat Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England By Daniel PoolAll Roads Lead To Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith COMMONPLACE QUOTES . . . 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 . . . - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 174 APPLICATION Take a portion of the book, say Mr. Collins' proposal to Elizabeth, and practice some Rhetoric skills. Ask the SPAUTS questions: S=Speaker - Who is the author or protagonist? P=Purpose - What is the purpose of the text? A=Audience - Who is the text indended for? U=Universal Ideas - What are the major themes of the passage? T=Tone - What is the tone of the author or progagonist? S=Strategies - What are some stragegies the author uses to convey ideas? Have your students answer this in a journal or participate in a Socratic Circle. Try it again using Mr. Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth.Jane Austen's novels are full of teatime, dinner parties, and balls. Practice some lifeskills by learning how to make the perfect pot of tea, set a table for a fancy dinner party, and learn how to square dance or swing dance. Do you know where the dessert fork goes or the water goblet? Be in the know!Read "The Lord's Prayer" in Matthew 6:9-13, Psalm 19, 23, 27, 29, 145, and 150 in the Bible. Contemplate writing your own prayer to God. What would you say?
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  • A Jane Austen Book Chat

    A Jane Austen Book Chat
    2025/01/10
    Happy New Year to you all! Welcome to "A True Good Beautiful Life" podcast where we talk about life-long flourishing through the lens of Charlotte Mason and Classical educational philosophies. Perhaps my favorite thing to talk about is Literature and History and today I hope you will be as excited as I am about our topic of discussion. When I thought about doing an episode on Jane Austen, I was both giddy and terrified. There is so much that could be said, from her biography to her novels, from the Regency era to her juvenilia. And so I decided to take my favorite of her novels, which probably includes most everyone else's in the world, Pride and Prejudice, and use it as guide to travel through Jane Austen’s world and help us readers understand a little deeper what is going on in her novels in general and what is passing through the minds of her characters. For as any good reader of literature should do, we ought to approach a book with open arms to see and understand what the author is trying to tell us and enter their world wearing their shoes. C. S. Lewis reminded us in his book An Experiment in Criticism, that - “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.” Jane wrote, as many authors do, with the assumption that her readers understood her world and did not need significant descriptions and annotations regarding the social culture surrounding the plotline. But for us modern readers, much of what we read about in her Regency English world (and even in her language) is foreign to us and can leave us wondering what is going on. So thank goodness there are folks out there who have written and podcasted about Regency England so that we can obtain a better understanding of the world and society that permeates Austen’s novels. Today I have with me a dear old college friend who shares an affinity of all things Austen and Literature in general, fellow George Mason graduate, Heather Usher. Favorite Resources: The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen annotated and edited by David M. ShapardJane Austen: A Life by Claire TomalinJane Austen's Country Life by Deirdre Le FayeMiniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter J. LeithartBBC's 1995 mini series "Pride and Prejudice"Joe Wright's 2005 movie "Pride and Prejudice"Ellie Dashwood's YouTube Channel on Classic Literature and HistoryTea with Jane Austen by Kim WilsonTea with Jane Austen by Pen VolgerCooking with Jane Austen & Friends by Laura BoyleJane Austen's Talbe: Recipes Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen by Robert Tuesley AndersonPraying with Jane: 31 Days Through the Prayers of Jane Austen by Rachel DodgeA Jane Austen Christmas: Regency Christmas Traditions by Maria GraceThe Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England by Margaret C. SullivanA Jane Austen Devotional by Steffany WoolseyAn Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan (fiction)Duty and Desire: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan (fiction)These Three Remain: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan (fiction)The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James (fiction)So Jane: Crafts and Recipes for an Austen-Inspired Life by Hollie KeithThe Making of Pride and Prejudice by Sue Birtwistle and Susie Conklin101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen: The Truth About the World's Most Intriguing Literary Heroine by Patrice HannonWhat Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England By Daniel PoolAll Roads Lead To Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith COMMONPLACE QUOTES “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” -Alan Bennett ". . . 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 . . ." - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 174 APPLICATION Spend the month of January reading The Annotated Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and annotated and edited by David M. Shapard. Not only will you enjoy one the world's most beloved and famous novels, you will also learn about Regency England. If you really want to delve into her novels, start a Book Club with a few friends and spend 2 months reading each of her books and Zoom together after each book to discuss. At this rate, you will finish all 6 of her major novels in one year.Engage in one of the ...
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  • Human Flourishing: The Goal of Education

    Human Flourishing: The Goal of Education
    2024/12/06
    Merry Christmas! Hello and welcome to A True Good Beautiful Life. I am your host, Jennifer Milligan and this podcast explores the ideas and practices of a Charlotte Mason and Classical Education. Today I am treated to a fascinating conversation with the Dean of Templeton Honors College, Dr. Brian Williams. We will discuss the telos or purpose of education and how to incorporate seven different areas of formation in the lives of our students (as well as ourselves) to promote long-term human flourishing. The areas of formation include the Intellectual, Moral, Aesthetic, Spiritual, Physical, Practical, and Social. Dr. Williams takes each one and discusses what question they each ask, the end goal for each one, the means or virtue to acquire to accomplish the end goal, the vices to overcome for each area, and finally the danger that arises if one pursues this area of formation exclusively. The Seven Areas of Formation (and some suggested readings): Intellectual (the Bible, Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy, Calvin's Institutes, Kevin Clark & Ravi Jain's The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education, Josef Pieper's An Anthology, Devin O'Donnell's The Age of Martha: A Call to Contemplative Learning in a Frenzied Culture, Nathaniel Bluedorn's The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning, John Taylor Gatto's The Underground History of American Education, Derrick Jensen's Walking on Water, C. S. Lewis' Abolition of Man + Mere Christianity, Tolkien's Leaf by Niggle, Trenton Lee Stewart's The Mysterious Benedict Society series, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre)Moral (the Bible, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, The Rule of St. Benedict, Vigen Guroian's Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination, Dante's Divine Comedy, Homer's The Odyssey, E. Nesbit's The Best of Shakespeare: Retellings of 10 Classic Plays, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Christina Rossetti's Time Flys: A Reading Diary)Aesthetic (Artistotle's Poetics, Josef Pieper's Only the Lover Sings, Plato's Republic, Book X, Steve Turley's Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture, Jacobson, Silverstein and Winslow's Patterns of Home, Roger Scruton's Beauty, Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness, John Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture, Emily Lex Studio's watercolor workbooks, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, poetry from Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Robert Frost, etc., art books featuring Vermeer, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, DaVinci, Michelangelo, Constable, Gainsborough, Turner, Wyeth, etc., musical pieces from classic and contemporary composers)Spiritual (the Bible, Augustine's Confessions + The City of God, R. C. Sproul's Defending Your Faith, Nancy Guthrie's Blessed, Jen Wilkin's Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds + her various Bible studies, Helen Talyor's Little Pilgrim's Progress, John Milton's Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series)Physical (books that teach exercise, stretching, strength-training, games, sports)Practical (John Holt's How Children Learn, Charlotte Mason's Vol. 6: A Philosophy of Education, Sarah Mackenzie's Teaching From Rest, Chris Hall's Common Arts Education, Rory Groves's Durable Trades, cookbooks (like Gooseberry Patch volumes, DIY Cookbook by America's Test Kitchen), DIY manuals (like Reader's Digest's New Fix-It Yourself Manual, Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional Skills, and John Vivian's Manual of Practical Homesteading), Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook, Jennifer Berry's Organize Now!, Floret's Cut Flower Garden, Christie Purifoy's Garden Maker and other gardening books, The Passionate Penny Pincher's menu plans and yearly planner, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series)Social (Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Life Together, Margaret Peterson's Keeping House, Sally & Sarah Clarkson's The Life-Giving Home, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson's Peter and the Starcatchers series, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice + the rest of her novels) COMMONPLACE QUOTES . . . 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 . . . - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 174 APPLICATION Sit down for an hour or two (maybe enjoy coffee and donuts with your collegues or other homeschooling moms and dads) and think about each of the seven areas of formation and how your school or homeschool is doing well with them and how you can improve in cultivating the means to strive for the goals of the True, the Good, the Beautiful, the Holy, the ...
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  • Spotting Dyslexia

    Spotting Dyslexia
    2024/11/01
    Welcome! On last month’s episode, I had the honor of talking with Dr. Amy Richards of Templeton Honors College and Eastern University on her book, Disability and Classical Education. She shared about the "why" of education and the "how" of implementing telic attention and a doxological classroom for everyone. So if you missed that one, please go back and check it out after you listen to this as you will certainly benefit from it. And so to piggyback on her talk, on today’s episode, I will be continuing our discussion on disabilities and learning differences, by taking a dive into one particular learning issue - Dyslexia, with Barton Reading and Spelling Dyslexia Coach, Jolene Christian of Reading and Spelling SOS. You will hear the TRUTH about Dyslexia and some GOOD ways to care about and help students struggling with this learning difference. In the final and short segment on BEAUTY, I will share with you a new favorite watercolor book by Emily Lex Studio that you’ll want to pick up for yourself and your kids. So please stick around, grab a cup of tea, and let’s enter this conversation together! Favorite Resources: Reading and Spelling SOS with dyslexia coach Jolene ChristianBright Solutions for DyslexiaThe Warning Signs of Dyslexia Summary Sheet Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz Handwriting Without Tears IEW Writing Program (Institute for Excellence in Writing)Ghotit.com - Dyslexia Reading and Writing Assistantgrammarly.com - an AI writing partnerKurzweil Education - reading, writing, studying, test-taking toolsMade by DyslexiaDyslexic AdvantageLearning Ally Audio BooksMicrosoft OneNoteEmily Lex Studio Watercolor WorkbooksEmily Lex Studio Watercolor & Penmanship Classes Watercolor With Me: In the Forest Watercolor With Me: In the Jungle Watercolor With Me: In the Ocean COMMONPLACE QUOTES "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - unknown ". . . 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 . . ." - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 174 APPLICATION Prepare yourself a cup of tea or coffee and sit down and contemplate the warning signs for each of your children or students and see if there is anything there to be concerned about. Then treat yourself to a piece of cake! You deserve it!Organize a parent or teacher meeting to go over these warning signs so others can be informed as well. They might want cake too! :)Check out Emily Lex Studios and try out one of her watercolor workbooks or use your own paper and paints and dabble with the medium. Just get comfortable using it and seeing how it works. The more you play the less intimidating it will seem. If you don't get stressed about it, chances are you children won't either...or at least not as much.
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  • Disability & Classical Education

    Disability & Classical Education
    2024/10/04
    Welcome to A True Good Beautiful Life podcast! Today my guest and I will take some of you down an unknown path of life, for others maybe an all too worn path, and perchance even for others one that some have ventured a little ways in but yet do not know their way through or what is beyond the bend. We are going to talk about disabilities and how understanding disabilities is essential to human flourishing, Classical Education, and Charlotte Mason’s First Principle - “children are born persons.” In the past, I briefly described what Charlotte Mason meant when she said that “children are born persons” –that they are a wonder of wonders; born ready to learn; that children are not blank slates, but that they are full persons with intellectual power, moral sense, and spiritual perception (Parents and Children, Chapter 24). Children are in fact image-bearers of our Creator God, thus deserving dignity, respect, and love. This concept of loving children and students is at the heart of understanding how to live with and teach students with various kinds of disabilities. My special guest today is Dr. Amy Richards, Affiliate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Eastern University and Faculty Fellow of the Templeton Honors College’s Master of Arts in Classical teaching program. That is where I first met Amy. She teaches a course entitled “Difference and Human Dignity in the Great Tradition” and her newly published book, called Disability and Classical Education: Student Formation in Keeping with our Common Humanity, and online lecture course through Classical U is our topic of discussion. Conversation Topics: the telos of educationstrange vocationstelic attentiondoxological classroomsthe Anthropology Audit Favorite Resources: Disability and Classical Education: Student Formation in Keeping with Our Common Humanity book by Dr. Amy Richards published by Classical Academic Press "Disability and Classical Education: Student Formation in Keeping with Our Common Humanity" online class by Dr. Amy Richards via Classical UClassical UClassical Academic Press What Can a Body Do: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweetswww.ATrueGoodBeautifulLife.com COMMONPLACE QUOTES "The disabled person, with all the limitations and suffering that scar him or her, forces us to question ourselves, with respect and wisdom, on the mystery of man. In fact, the more we move about in the dark and unknown areas of human reality, the better we understand that it is in the more difficult and disturbing situations that the dignity and grandeur of the human being emerges." - St. John Paul II (https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/pont_messages/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_20040108_handicap-mentale.html ) ". . . 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 . . ." - Charlotte Mason, Volume 1: Home Education, p. 174 APPLICATION What do you think the telos of education ought to be? Write out your mission statement for teaching.Consider what kind of attention your educational institution practices themselves and cultivates in their students -- instrumental or telic? How can you cultivate telic attention in your classroom?To truly be a welcoming doxological classroom, we need to see everyone as a gift. How can you anticipate difference in your classroom and incorporate universal design?
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