Episode 228: Mastery Before Moving On
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Did Charlotte Mason advocate the common notion of "mastery before moving on?" Liz, Emily, and Nicole discuss this popular idea and, based on Miss Mason's principles, the cases when moving on with or without mastery of a subject are beneficial for the student.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of a Delectable Education is brought to you by Simply Charlotte Mason's Shakespeare Resource, Shakespeare in three steps. |
| 0:09.0 | These teacher resources are really wonderful help for a mom who is maybe a little afraid of Shakespeare and knows that Charlotte Mason has that on the schedule for Form 2 and Up students, but they have never studied |
| 0:26.2 | Shakespeare themselves or feel really uncomfortable. This resource |
| 0:29.6 | contains the complete script of one Shakespeare play with helpful annotations that help you |
| 0:35.1 | the teacher scaffold the lesson and then it even comes with a PDF where you can print |
| 0:40.6 | off a copy of the script for each of your students so you can read |
| 0:43.7 | this play together aloud as Charlotte Mason recommended. So if you feel uncertain |
| 0:50.7 | about how to introduce your children to the bountiful feast that is Shakespeare, or as he is |
| 0:56.8 | affectionately called the Bard in his wonderful contributions to English language. This might be a resource for you. You can find more |
| 1:04.3 | at simply CharlotteMason.com. Welcome to a Delectable Education, the podcast that |
| 1:09.7 | spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with |
| 1:13.8 | Nicole Williams and Liz Catrill. And I guess I'll just dive in here kind of in an |
| 1:21.9 | introductory way you know we hear a lot about principles in Charlotte Mason discussions. |
| 1:28.0 | They are not the same as ideas, and we hear a lot of ideas out there but somehow with social media and just the way our world |
| 1:36.2 | communicates in general I think a lot of ideas develop and we somehow take them on as |
| 1:42.1 | principles and I'm not sure that's always helpful or the way an original thought was intended |
| 1:49.2 | and a lot of it is because language is kind of a tricky, even a slippery thing. |
| 1:55.3 | One word can have so many meanings and have different meanings for different people. |
| 1:59.8 | And through usage and over time, words change in their meaning. |
| 2:05.8 | So as you all know when I start out a discussion |
| 2:10.0 | I always like to begin with defining terms |
| 2:12.2 | because language is so complex. |
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