SS #27: Education is a Discipline
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
"Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life." Today, in the second of our three-part series, we're discussing education as a discipline. What do we mean by discipline? How do we use it as a tool of education? The Scholé Sisters get real about this topic.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 27. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama, |
| 0:17.0 | who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow. |
| 0:21.9 | Scalae Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the trenches |
| 0:27.4 | of classical homeschooling, who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it |
| 0:33.1 | all done. I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. You can find me at Afterthoughts. That's my main blog. And also |
| 0:41.0 | teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my line of printable phonics lessons. |
| 0:46.0 | You can hear more from me on my other podcast, Aftercast. My co-hosts today are Pam Barnhill |
| 0:53.0 | and Misty Winkler. Pam is an author, speaker, blog today are Pam Barnhill and Misty Winkler. |
| 0:55.0 | Pam is an author, speaker, blogger at Pam Barnhill.com, |
| 0:59.1 | and you'll probably recognize her from her two popular podcasts, |
| 1:03.5 | homeschool snapshots, and your morning basket. |
| 1:07.1 | Misty is a second-generation homeschooler with five kids and too many projects. |
| 1:12.6 | She writes about practical classical homeschooling at Simply Convivial |
| 1:16.2 | and about organizing attitudes at simplified organization. |
| 1:21.3 | This episode is sponsored by Start Here. |
| 1:24.6 | Are you overwhelmed by the fact that Charlotte Mason wrote literally thousands of pages? |
| 1:29.9 | Totally confused about where to start? That's by I developed Start Here. When Charlotte Mason was |
| 1:36.2 | trying to distill her educational philosophy into its simplest form, she ended up with 20 core |
| 1:42.1 | principles. Start Here is a comprehensive guide to the big ideas |
| 1:47.0 | governing Charlotte Mason's philosophy. It's perfect for individual or group study. More importantly, |
| 1:54.0 | it's the perfect place to start with Charlotte Mason. Just head on over to afterthoughts blog.net |
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