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Math Across the Forms

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From the very beginning, I enjoyed picture study. From the very beginning, I enjoyed picture study. In fact, it is a signature element of the Charlotte Mason method that is almost impossible not to like. It is such a simple lesson, so easy to participate in and conduct. And the art that has survived for us to study is the good art, the true art, the beautiful art. What’s not to like about that? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But after years of delightful picture study, I found that the colors had lost their sheen. The beautiful music that I had learned to appreciate could not pierce the despair that had, like a curtain, enclosed my heart. “I am walking in the valley of the shadow of death,” I told my pastor, “and now I find that Charlotte Mason has nothing to say to me.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But as days turned into weeks, memories began to float in. Memories of flowers from nature walks. Memories of pieces from composer study. And memories too of pictures. Pictures that we had studied. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Does a great artist paint a picture and, behind and through the marvellous technique, does his inspiring idea speak to our souls?” wrote Miss Mason. “If so, the artist utters another Name than his own. But are we content to admire the picture for itself and in itself? Does it fail to reach out of itself towards any of those thoughts by which men live, though it be in the broad sweep of a sky, the seal upon a countenance? In such a picture the artist utters a name, but it is his own.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ All of our teaching, all of our work, all of our art has only one aim. Back then I didn’t understand perhaps the most profound truth of Charlotte Mason’s method. I didn’t know “the unsuspected defect in most of the teaching that fails in its witness.” But you can. It’s laid out for all to see, in Mason’s fourth Scale How Meditation. Link in profile. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @artmiddlekauff
The leaves are changing, and the air is getting cr The leaves are changing, and the air is getting crisp. I love this time of year. It means that our summer bird friends are getting ready to go to their warmer winter homes. I like to remind others that this is a perfect opportunity to begin the journey in bird identification.   ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In Home Education, Charlotte Mason recommends starting this journey in winter. She said, “And here comes in the real joy of bird-stalking. If in the winter months the children have become fairly familiar with the notes of our resident birds, they will be able in the early summer to ‘stalk’ to some purpose. The notes and songs in June are bewildering, but the plan is to single out those you are quite sure of, and then follow up the others.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Trying to identify birds for the first time by sight or sound in the summer can be bewildering. Not only are the trees filled with lots of different birds, they’re also filled with leaves that hide them. Getting to know the birds in winter is so much easier. The same visitors show up daily for a few months and you can see them in the bare trees. Next thing you know, their song ends up becoming a familiar serenade that you look forward to hearing at breakfast and the new friends that come along are very noticeable! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Do you like to identify birds? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @aolander
Check out a preview of what will be found in the u Check out a preview of what will be found in the upcoming Book 4 of The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series on our Math Resources Page! It’s not the detailed Scope & Sequence, but if you’re following along, I hope it gives you an idea of where we’re headed. ∡ Now, before you ask, it’s still in beta testing and it’s too soon for a release date. And, seriously, as I write each one, I think “Oh, this one’s my favorite!” ∡ So go, take a peek via the link. While you’re there, be sure to check out all the great resources we offer for free to help bring a living education to your home. ∡ @rbaburina
We are living in the wake of a great shipwreck. So We are living in the wake of a great shipwreck. So wrote Martin Cothran; it’s “the wake of the Great Education Shipwreck, which occurred roughly in the early twentieth century. The coherent vision of what education was for—the intellectual, moral, and cultural formation of human beings—was lost.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We are all left, he said, clinging to the “flotsam of sometimes confused but always fragmented educational approaches.” Some hope to paddle on their separate beams of wood back to the ship’s port of origin, hoping to rebuild the ship that already crashed once at sea. Others hope to paddle forward, thinking the light of progress will lead them to their promised shore. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We see this play out in two major movements in Christian education. Some seek for guidance in Greek and Roman voices from the distant past. Others look to the flickering light of contemporary social science, clinical case studies, and statistical proofs, thinking therein the elusive answer will be found. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Interestingly, both camps claim Mason as their own. “If Mason were alive,” they say, “she would emphasize Latin more!” While others say, “If Mason were alive, she would embrace all the latest findings of educational research!” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But they forget that Mason spoke of another shipwreck. “Indefinitness of aim and faulty methods make shipwreck of education on all hands,” she wrote. “The thing we hold amongst us,” on the other hand, “is too great to be lost and I believe, is God-given. There is no other school of educational thought which even professes to have any adequate philosophy of education.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s the 21st century. What would Charlotte do? We know, because she told us. I poured my soul into an article which is now available in French. Read the new translation or the original English, and join us if you wish, on a fine and seaworthy ship. Link in profile. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @artmiddlekauff
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