SS #115: Indoctrinate Me
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a response to the popular saying that real education teaches kids "not WHAT to think, but HOW to think." We think this is a dangerous false dichotomy. Can we make a good argument in favor of indoctrinating your kids? We're gonna try!
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Have you joined the Scholé Sistership yet? We are really enjoying the current Sophie Seminar, TechTonic! Together, we're reading our way around the screen time issue. The goal of this seminar is for us all to be better equipped to make just judgments regarding screens. After all, informed opinions are the only opinions worth having. It's not too late to join the seminar! All you have to do is head on over to scholesisters.com/join and sign up for the Sophie plan!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, then that makes you wonder if it becomes an epistemology that says we can't really know anything. |
| 0:06.3 | Right. Absolutely. |
| 0:08.7 | But then if you can't know anything, what's the point of critical thinking? |
| 0:15.1 | Pointing out to other people that they shouldn't be so dogmatic. |
| 0:18.2 | I guess so. |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah. that they shouldn't be so dogmatic. I guess so. Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama who seeks to learn |
| 0:33.6 | and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow. |
| 0:37.3 | Scalae Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches |
| 0:42.9 | of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting |
| 0:48.0 | it all done. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm your host, Brandy Bensel. |
| 0:52.4 | You can come study Charlotte Mason with me over in the Charlotte |
| 0:55.3 | Mason think tank. Go to afterthoughts blog.net slash think tank to learn more. |
| 1:02.3 | My co-hosts today are Misty Winkler and Abby Wall. Misty is a homeschooling mom of five, including one |
| 1:10.4 | graduate. She writes and podcasts at simplyconvial.com and is the author of The Convivial Homeschool, now available on Amazon. |
| 1:18.6 | Abby is basically the queen of the Scholeysistership. |
| 1:23.6 | Abby is a country-living, farmer, rancher, a loving wife and mama five who homeschools |
| 1:29.9 | and reads whenever she can. Have you joined the school a sister ship yet? We're really enjoying |
| 1:38.0 | the current Sophie seminar Tectonic. Together, we're reading our way around the screen time issue. |
| 1:43.8 | The goal of the seminar is for all of us to be better equipped to make just judgments about this issue. After all, informed opinions are the only opinions worth having. It's not too late to join us. All you have to do is head on over to scoleysisters.com slash join and sign up for the Sophie plan. |
| 2:04.1 | Today's episode is basically a response to the popular saying that real education teaches kids |
| 2:09.5 | not what to think but how to think. We think this is a dangerous false dichotomy. Can we make a |
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