Episode 41: Interview with John Muir Laws
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This Charlotte Mason podcast episode is an interview with John Muir Laws (Jack), inspiring naturalist and scientist. Join Nicole to hear how expertise and aptitude are not key to making strides in discovering the world of nature and science, but that, as Mason asserts, curiosity and willingness to explore are. If you as mother and teacher, or your child as student, are intimidated by the field of science, this interview will set you free to thoroughly partake of this part of the educational feast, and if you are intrigued with the field of science, make you aware of how much more you can enjoy it.
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"Marks, prizes, places, rewards, punishments, praise, blame, or other inducements are not necessary to secure attention, which is voluntary, immediate and surprisingly perfect." (Vol. 6, p. 7)
"Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with a warm diluent at the lips of their teacher. The teacher's business is to indicate, stimulate, direct and constrain to the acquirement of knowledge, but by no means to be the fountain-head and source of all knowledge in his or her own person. The less parents and teachers talk-in and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children." (Vol. 3, p. 162)
John Muir Laws' Website
A Curiosity Framework
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of a delectable education is sponsored by Truth Quest History. |
| 0:06.0 | At Truth Quest History, we see history a little differently, |
| 0:10.0 | not as the usual litany of both daring and dastardly human deeds. |
| 0:14.4 | Rather, we see that kings, artists, thinkers, warriors, scientists, |
| 0:20.1 | and everyday folks act out of certain beliefs. |
| 0:24.0 | These beliefs are spiritual, and they thus reveal God's central role in history, |
| 0:29.0 | not only as the initiator of it and the creator of mankind, but also as the |
| 0:35.1 | establishment of all truth. People may or may not believe the truth, but one thing |
| 0:40.6 | is sure how they respond to it shapes their history. |
| 0:44.0 | Thus, in Truth Quest's history, the students learn of the wars and paintings, the scientific |
| 0:50.6 | discoveries, and the social issues, but in their deep and rightful context |
| 0:55.8 | as indicators of the great spiritual issues at the core of life and history. |
| 1:02.2 | This multiple award-winning curriculum therefore easily provides parents with the daily means to harness history study |
| 1:08.0 | as dramatic proof to their students of truth for eternity, for families, for Nations, and for economies through living books and rich discussion. |
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| 1:22.8 | Truth Quest History.com. |
| 1:25.4 | Nicole Williams of a delectable education |
| 1:27.9 | has begun publishing a living science curriculum |
| 1:31.2 | that adheres to both Mason's philosophy and her methods in addition to offering |
| 1:36.0 | contemporary scientific knowledge. |
| 1:39.1 | Mason's goal for school science was to instill a sense of wonder and awe in students and to provide them with the common |
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