SS #05: Balancing Work and Wonder
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Pam and Brandy have a great conversation with Ravi Jain, co-author of The Liberal Arts Tradition, on the subject of balancing work with wonder. How do both of those fit together? What happens when our students seem to have lost the wonder? What if we seem to have lost the wonder? Ravi had some great thoughts on this.
We also discussed piety in our Nitty Gritty Homeschool question – in The Liberal Arts Tradition, we're told that piety is the foundation of learning. What are some practical ways to nurture and build it? We discuss all these questions and more in today's episode!
Check out our website scholesisters.com for tons of great articles on a variety of topics -- self-education, commonplacing, classical homeschooling, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number five. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama, who seeks to |
| 0:17.1 | learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow. |
| 0:20.5 | Scalais Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches |
| 0:25.6 | of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it |
| 0:30.9 | all done. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. |
| 0:34.0 | You can find me at Afterthoughts. |
| 0:35.8 | That's my main blog. |
| 0:37.3 | And also teaching reading with Bob |
| 0:38.9 | Books, which is where I keep my line of printable phonics lessons. Today, my co-host is Pam Barnhill. |
| 0:45.5 | Pam is an author, speaker, blogger at ed snapshots.com. And you'll probably recognize her from her two |
| 0:52.3 | popular podcasts, homeschool snapshots and |
| 0:54.9 | your morning basket. |
| 0:57.0 | Together we're talking with a guest today, Robbie James, the co-author of a book we highly |
| 1:01.7 | recommend the liberal arts tradition, a philosophy of Christian classical education. |
| 1:07.2 | Robbie is a graduate of Davidson College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and the University of Central Florida. |
| 1:14.3 | His interests include physics, ancient Greek, and international political economy. |
| 1:19.6 | He's worked at various churches and began teaching calculus and physics at the Geneva School in Orlando, Florida in 2003. |
| 1:27.2 | During his tenure there, he not only authored the |
| 1:29.6 | liberal arts tradition, but he's also given over 50 talks and workshops throughout the country. |
| 1:34.7 | And we were very honored and excited to speak with him. This episode is sponsored by Work the |
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