Episode 73: Listener Q&A #16
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The increasing popularity of Charlotte Mason's method of education means an increase in misconceptions and misinformation. This episode tackles some of the "myths" that have circulated, particularly regarding what makes a living book or a textbook, what books are used in the Bible lesson, and that reading and narration are the only content of a lesson.
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| 0:00.0 | Our goal with a Delectable Education podcast is to encourage and equip parents to use the Charlotte |
| 0:07.0 | Mason method with their children. |
| 0:09.0 | It has been our privilege to work with hundreds of families through our consulting services |
| 0:14.5 | and help them develop custom curriculum for their individual families. We love this |
| 0:19.8 | work but it is our goal that as parents learn more and more about the Charlotte Mason |
| 0:25.8 | method they will feel confident to make their own curriculum and to help with |
| 0:31.4 | this we at a delectable education have developed a new tool for building your own custom curriculum. |
| 0:38.0 | These curriculum templates are similar to what we use when we craft curriculum but have so much |
| 0:44.9 | information in them to equip you to develop your own custom curriculum. You can |
| 0:50.6 | find more information about them at a delectable education |
| 0:53.6 | under the Teacher Tools tab. |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome back to a delectable education, the podcast that |
| 1:01.3 | spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Nicole Williams and Liz Kottrell. |
| 1:08.6 | Today is another dispelling Charlotte Mason myths episode. |
| 1:13.7 | And we thought we would jump right in |
| 1:16.4 | to talking about a topic that is very synonymous |
| 1:20.6 | with Charlotte Mason, living books, but can still make a lot of people |
| 1:25.0 | tremble in their boots, flounder or feel stymied as to how to define a living book. |
| 1:32.0 | We hear or we see an assumption made that anything |
| 1:37.0 | not a textbook is actually a living book. So let's talk about that first. I know plenty of books that are not textbooks that I would not consider living. |
| 1:47.0 | I think we have to consider the fact that Mason never saw the likes of our textbooks first of all. So if we're like on a scale of |
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