Episode 167: Method vs. System
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It is not an exaggeration to say that understanding the ideas in this Charlotte Mason podcast is the most important piece of knowledge you can gain as a teacher and parent. Liz, Emily, and Nicole focus on Miss Mason's use of method rather than system in education. It is a way of seeing the child, his education, and discipleship that brings life rather than fixed results.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of a selectable education is sponsored by simply Charlotte Mason's elementary arithmetic series. |
| 0:07.0 | Did you know that simply Charlotte Mason has compiled kits to accompany each book in the elementary arithmetic series. |
| 0:13.6 | Each kit contains curated manipulatives |
| 0:16.4 | that coordinate with the work to be done |
| 0:18.1 | in the corresponding book. |
| 0:20.0 | The book one kit includes plenty of buttons, |
| 0:22.4 | beads, craft sticks, and more to facilitate the child's exploration of numbers up to 100. |
| 0:27.0 | Supplies for bundling these objects into groups of 10 are also included. |
| 0:32.0 | The book 2 kit includes play $1 bills, a felt sheet for |
| 0:36.7 | containing a child's built tables, and number sentence cards to facilitate independent |
| 0:41.7 | work. Both kits also include our heavy duty |
| 0:45.0 | dry erase board with one gritted side and a long lasting dry erase marker. If you'd |
| 0:50.4 | prefer to have your supplies ready made, these kits are for you. |
| 0:54.0 | Visit simply CharlotteMason.com. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz Kertrill. |
| 1:10.4 | Today on the podcast we wanted to discuss something that comes up over and over in |
| 1:16.1 | Charlotte Mason's writings and that is the word method. Sometimes her whole |
| 1:21.4 | educational philosophy is called method, but in volume one, home education, |
| 1:28.0 | she contrasts method with kind of its antithesis, and that is a system. |
| 1:35.0 | So before we get into the distinction that Charlotte Mason made |
| 1:39.0 | between a method and a system, let's talk about what a method is in the first place and why Charlotte Mason thought it was important. |
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