Episode 305: The Bible, Part 1
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Why did Charlotte Mason think that the Bible was the most important subject in a child's school lessons? What portions of the Bible are appropriate for children to read? And why should I include Bible as a lesson if our family already does regular Bible reading or devotions? In today's podcast we are tackling these questions and more as we look at the Bible as a school subject in the Charlotte Mason curriculum.
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| 0:00.0 | Why does Charlotte Mason think that the Bible was the most important subject in a child's school lessons? |
| 0:06.0 | What portions of the Bible are appropriate for children to read? |
| 0:10.0 | And why should I include Bible as a lesson if our family already does regular Bible reading or devotions? |
| 0:17.0 | Today we are tackling these questions and more as we look at the Bible as a school subject |
| 0:22.7 | in a Charlotte Mason curriculum. Bring the Bible to life through art with Emily Kaiser's |
| 0:27.6 | Bible picture portfolios from Simply Charlotte Mason. Thoughtfully curated images and guided discussion |
| 0:33.6 | prompts coordinate with Charlotte Mason's elementary Bible lessons. Visit simply charlottat Mason.com. Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads |
| 0:42.3 | the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Katrill |
| 0:46.6 | and Nicole Williams. This season we are exploring a Charlotte Mason curriculum and we invite |
| 0:52.5 | you to read along with us from volume six of |
| 0:55.5 | chapter 10 check out the reading schedule and our show notes to follow along today we are |
| 1:03.1 | beginning our series on Charlotte Mason Bible lessons so Charlotte Mason categorized all knowledge |
| 1:09.6 | that was due to a child that we've been talking about in what a Charlotte Mason curriculum is in three areas. |
| 1:17.1 | She's called it knowledge of God, knowledge of man, and knowledge of the universe. |
| 1:22.5 | And she opens up this section of chapter 10 by saying that it is knowledge of God that is most important |
| 1:30.5 | indispensable and most happy making she calls knowledge of God a firstborn affinity recognizing that |
| 1:40.4 | every person is born wanting to know God in fact fact, she says, he is a child of God |
| 1:46.8 | whose supreme desire and glory it is to know about and to know his Almighty Father. So this |
| 1:56.4 | knowledge, she believed, comes directly from the Bible, a literary form like we've been talking about. |
| 2:03.6 | And it was actually from the Bible that Charlotte Mason derived her code of education, what gave her |
| 2:09.9 | the foundational ideas of her philosophy. |
| 2:13.4 | She found it in the Gospels, summarized in, let the little children come to me, offend not, |
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