Episode 102: The Importance of Imagination

A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast

Nicole Williams

Education

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week's podcast explores why Charlotte Mason's "feast" would be indigestible without one key ingredient: the child's imagination. Jason Fiedler, pastor and homeschool dad, is interviewed on the topic of cultivating imagination and why it is the power of mind that makes the difference in our children's education.

For the Children's Sake, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

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The Imagination in Childhood, Charlotte Mason (Parents' Review no. 27)

Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-Balanced Mind, E.A. Parish (Parents' Review, no. 25)

Charlotte Mason Institute Eastern Conference

The Living Education Retreat

The Idyll Challenge

Jason Fiedler's CMI Blog

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1:40.1	Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that seeks to spread the feast of the Charlotte
1:46.5	Mason method of education. I am Liz Kattrill. I'm going to be interviewing a special guest today on a topic that is critical
1:59.0	to education and is not discussed very often.
2:03.6	You know that education has a goal of knowledge,
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