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“Ask-Art-4-Spirit-Letter”. Released: 2019.

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This cute squirrel followed me as I was walking do This cute squirrel followed me as I was walking down a tree-lined path, jumping from tree to tree, chittering at me all the way. I finally stopped to look at him, and he looked at me, and we shared a (fairly long for the active squirrel) moment of staring at each other. Any forest friends hanging around you these days? @antonella.f.greco . . . . . . . . . #squirrels #eyesandnoeyes #charlottemasonirl #backyardnature #naturestudy #forestfriends #woodlandcreatures #Godinnature #1000hoursoutside #squirrel #fauna #autumn #baretrees
Charlotte Mason says that “knowledge is delectable Charlotte Mason says that “knowledge is delectable.” This is because we are all born with a “natural desire for knowledge,” and when we get it, we are delighted. But did you know that knowledge can also undermine our ability to teach? In their 2014 book “Make It Stick,” authors Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel explain the “curse of knowledge,” as described by physicist and educator Eric Mazur of Harvard: “The better you know something, the more difficult it becomes to teach it… Why? As you get more expert in complex areas, your models in those areas grow more complex, and the component steps that compose them fade into the background of memory (the curse of knowledge)… “This presumption by the professor that her students will readily follow something complex that appears fundamental in her own mind is a metacognitive error, a misjudgment of the matchup between what she knows and what her students know. Mazur says that the person who knows best what a student is struggling with in assimilating new concepts is not the professor, it’s another student.” One way to escape the “curse of knowledge” is to teach with living books instead of oral lessons, so the teacher’s models don’t affect the learner’s discovery. But what about teacher-driven subjects like math, grammar, handicrafts, and even household chores? I think Miss Mason points to a solution in Home Education when she says, “No work should be given to a child that he cannot execute perfectly.” By assigning tasks simple enough that the child can do well, we avoid overloading them with tasks beyond their ability. I think absolute patience is required from parents and teachers to ensure that students and children never miss out on one bit of the knowledge that was first delightful to us and can now be delightful to them. @artmiddlekauff . . . . . . . . . #makeitstick #livingeducation #learning #philosophyofeducation #charlottemason #charlottemasonpoetry #naturaldesireforknowledge #knowledgeisdelectable #thecurseofknowledge #perfectexecution #delightfuleducation #charlottemasonliving #charlottemasonirl #homeschooldad #charlottemasondad
Once my boys graduated from homeschool, I was a li Once my boys graduated from homeschool, I was a little shocked and saddened to see they no longer read for pleasure. Then came the library used book sale. It had long been our tradition to go and the added challenge of $20-budget always kept it exciting and enjoyable. The thrill of the hunt remained and, upon return home, we took turns sharing our finds. That night, we all went to bed with a good book and the reading hasn’t stopped. @rbaburina . . . . . . . . . #livingbook #charlottemasoneducation #livingbooks #librarybooksale #homeschoolgraduate #charlottemasongraduate
A seven-year-old asked his mother, “Why didn’t you A seven-year-old asked his mother, “Why didn’t you give me one of those pretty names we hear in the stories at school?” (He preferred Ulysses to his own name Kenneth.) And Allan’s mother “would have done much better if she had called him Achilles.” The year was 1920 and a head master of a council school was explaining how the alleged “difficulties” with the Charlotte Mason method vanish when it is put into practice. This head master was not a House of Education graduate. He was a man who was set in his ways. But new ideas changed all that, and he would never go back. (Even though, in a sense, he had once been a “Mason boy”!) Hear his wonderful story and how difficulties go away in the vintage article at the profile link. @artmiddlekauff
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