Episode 298: Balancing Expectations
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Often when we encounter a difficulty in our Charlotte Mason education, the problem lies not in the books and materials, but rather in a mismatch between our expectations and the reality we see before us. In this episode of the podcast, we explore the unbalanced expectations we consciously and unconsciously embrace that are at odds with the outcomes Charlotte Mason expected. In returning to the principles of our educational method, we can find balance, and thereby, peace.
"If we realise that the mind and knowledge are like two members of a ball and socket joint, two limbs of a pair of scissors, fitted to each other, necessary to each other and acting only in concert, we shall understand that our function as teachers is to supply children with the rations of knowledge which they require; and that the rest, character and conduct, efficiency and ability...take care of themselves." (6/241)
"We need not ask what the girl or boy likes. She very often likes the twaddle of goody-goody storybooks, he like condiments, highly-spices tales of adventure. We are all capable of liking mental food of a poor quality." (3/168)
"It is a wide progamme founded on the educational rights of man; wide, but we may not say it is impossible nor may we pick and choose and educate him in this direction but not that...Our part it seems to me is to give a child a vital hold upon as many as possible of those relationships proper to him." (6/157)
"Therefore, if the business of teaching be to furnish the child with ideas, any teaching which does not leave him possessed of a new mental image has, by so far, missed its mark. It is not too much to say that a morning in which a child receives no new idea is a morning wasted, however closely the little student has been kept at his books." (1/173)"If it is the best a child can do and shows interest and effort, then it is satisfactory or 'good'" (Exam Pamphlet)
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Episode 233: Method of Lessons
Examination and the P.U.S.Pamphlet
ADE's Exam Planner: A Teacher Help for preparing and executing exams for all Form Levels
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Beauty and Truth Math. |
| 0:04.0 | Are you seeking to follow the Charlotte Mason method and feel lost or overwhelmed by your students' math lessons? |
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| 0:27.9 | They follow Charlotte Mason's mathematics streams of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. |
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| 0:37.5 | reflection of God's character we also want them to love exploring ideas in math |
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| 1:20.4 | delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily |
| 1:25.3 | Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Kittrell and Nicole Williams. |
| 1:29.8 | This season we have been talking about finding balance. Each episode has been born out of |
| 1:36.0 | conversations with many Charlotte Mason moms and questions that we frequently receive. But there |
| 1:42.4 | remains another sort of inquiry that requires balance, |
| 1:45.2 | and that is what sort of expectations we have |
| 1:50.2 | of our materials, of our students, |
| 1:53.6 | and also of ourselves as we pursue a Charlotte Mason education. |
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