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the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser, and I'm here

with Liz Kittrell and Nicole Williams. Well, Charlotte Mason said, next in order to religious

knowledge, history is the pivot upon which our curriculum turns. And so we

turned from Bible lessons to the subject of history, which informs so much of the rest of the

curriculum. Absolutely. So, Nicole, would you start by telling us why Charlotte Mason thought

that history was so important, this mainstay pivot of the curriculum.

And that's a very striking claim. It is. You know, next to religious knowledge. It's the pivot.

But once you understand how she approached it, I think it really makes sense. History in a Charlotte Mason education isn't about memorizing names and dates. It's about knowing people. It's about

understanding ideas. It's about helping a child find their place in the world. I think it is so

cool. It's not in an abstract way or a theoretical way, but seeing themselves as part of a long

and living story. Through history,

our children are introduced to the full scope of human experience. They come to see the choices

people have made, their courage, their failures, their faithfulness. And over time, they develop

principles they can apply to their own lives.

That's the beauty of history.

It quietly shapes the way we think and the kind of people we are becoming, or our children, of course.

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