Episode 22: An Interview with Cheri Struble
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Charlotte Mason did not consider nature study to be optional. This podcast is an interview with a mother with eight children who took Mason's words to heart and exerted the effort to make it happen. Listen to her experiences and practical hints for being a successful mother of young naturalists.
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"I venture to suggest, not what is practicable in any household, but what seems to me absolutely best for the children; and that, in the faith that mothers work wonders once they are convinced that wonders are demanded of them." (Vol. 1, p. 44)
"We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things." (Vol. 1, p. 61)
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"The Educational Value of Natural History"
Charlotte Mason Institute National Conference
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte |
| 0:35.2 | Mason method. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Nicole Williams and today I am joined by a very special guest, Sherry Struble. For the last two weeks Emily Liz and I have been |
| 0:44.9 | talking about nature study and nature lore and we just couldn't let the subject go |
| 0:49.1 | without inviting Sherry to join us to share her story. I first heard her speak about nature study in an upstairs |
| 0:56.1 | corner of the cafeteria at Garner Webb University. I was attending the Charlotte Mason Institute |
| 1:01.2 | annual conference, then Child Light, and she was sharing about her family's efforts |
| 1:06.0 | to incorporate nature study. |
| 1:07.9 | I can remember writing in big letters across my end of the conference survey. Give Sherry a quiet room and a full |
| 1:14.9 | workshop. She has great stuff to share. She's in her 19th year of homeschooling now |
| 1:20.8 | with eight children at home and one adult daughter has been married for |
| 1:24.3 | several years. I think her story is very encouraging to people because sometimes moms |
| 1:29.7 | with little children feel like nature study is just a guilt-ridden cherry on top of an already |
| 1:35.1 | overwhelming day, but she's figured out how to implement it so that it can be the life-giving |
| 1:41.3 | activity that Mason knew it should be. |
| 1:44.0 | Sherry, will you tell us about your journey with nature study? |
| 1:48.0 | Oh, that's really neat that you remember that. |
| 1:52.0 | Well, I kind of always tell the story like when I started studying |
| 1:56.8 | Charlotte Mason's philosophy I just had one daughter in school because she's older than the rest of the children and |
| 2:04.8 | I didn't really delve into Charlotte's books but read some other things so I used to |
| 2:11.0 | send her out by herself for nature study and she had a nature journal and she filled it with lovely things and she would come in and tell me all about stuff but when I |
| 2:20.0 | started really delving into Charlotte's books I read a couple things that were just really kind of convicting for me and I love |
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