On Monday, we had our first CM Group meeting. We’re using Brandy’s study guide, Start Here. In it, she assigns readings from For the Children’s Sake and A Philosophy of Education. In For the Children’s Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay says some pretty profound things. One of the first, for me so apropos, is, We have to…
Celeste asked us to share our favorite place of Commonplace Keeping. I love keeping a Commonplace for a couple of disparate reasons. First, I love keeping Words. If you’re new around here, you may not know that every Wednesday I post a linkup called “Wednesdays with Words.” Cindy Rollins graciously allowed me to take over…
On Monday, I shared a quote from Alan Jacobs’ book The Narnian about Christianity being true myth and promised more today. I’m glad to be back into Jacobs’ biography of C S Lewis. I’m at a particularly exciting point: Lewis’ conversion to Christianity. We had seen how for his whole life, Lewis enjoyed myth. Here,…
We have been reading through One Hundred and One Famous Poems after dinner. A poem or two goes quickly and sports has been extending bedtime till too late, so something quick has been lovely. We’ve liked some, disliked some, known some, been surprised by some. The exercise has been good, though. Last night, we read…
Last week, I made the connection between Glass’ foundation of good principles with Mr. Darcy’s education. I might have done that a week too early as I noted in the comments to that post. This next chapter is all about humility being the first step to true education. Kelly reminded me recently that Andrew Kern…
I continue reading Karen Glass’ Consider This. This week, I read Chapters 2 and 3. Early in Chapter 2, Glass gives us a vision of how the answer to the question “what is man?” makes a huge impact on how we educate: If we answer the question “what is man?” with “man is a living…
In Chapter 1 of Consider This, Karen Glass writes about Charlotte Mason and her development as a Educational Philosopher. The reader might not think a chapter such as this would hold nuggets of philosophy to consider. The reader would be wrong. Glass shows from Mason’s own writings how she was able to read widely, delve…
A New Year is on the cusp. A year in which I hope to revel in God, family, and vocation. To that end, I’ve begun Mystie’s Simplified Organization eCourse. One of the quotes she quotes is by Milton and it stopped me in my tracks. (I even tweeted it immediately when I heard it): Gratitude…
Merry Christmas! We sang ‘Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming’ at our Sunday evening service. I like it, it’s hard to sing, but so lovely (and I got the alto line right for the first time!) I love the final stanza and thought I’d share it for our Christmas post. I totally understand if you…
Last week I shared how Classical Education drew me at least partially because of its historical, traditional nature. The Introduction of Karen Glass’ book Consider This takes a giant leap in disabusing me of that perception. It is not possible to fully understand classical education by looking at what they did in the past–perhaps the…