What Should Children Learn?

Simply Charlotte Mason Homeschooling

Sonya Shafer

Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Parenting, How To

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	It seems like what is one of the main questions we homeschool educators ask.
0:06.0	What books should I use? What math curriculum should I choose?
0:10.0	What courses or classes should we do this year?
0:13.0	What outside activities should we add?
0:16.0	We spend a lot of time pondering the what as we pour over websites and ask for reviews from our friends
0:23.1	and research into the wee hours of the morning. It's easy to focus on the what because
0:30.4	that's tangible. We can see the what with our eyes and hold it in our hands and interact
0:37.3	with it every day. But as we've
0:39.8	been learning, as we look into Charlotte Mason's questions for home educators, it is equally
0:44.9	important to ask why and how. She must ask herself seriously, why must the children learn
0:52.7	at all, what should they learn, and how
0:55.7	should they learn it?
0:57.6	If she take the trouble to find a definite and thoughtful answer to each of these three
1:02.1	queries, she will be in a position to direct her children's studies.
1:07.2	Home Education page 171.
1:11.0	We looked at why last week.
1:13.4	Why must the children learn at all?
1:15.9	And we confirmed that in a Charlotte Mason approach, children don't just learn to know something.
1:21.9	They don't just cram a bunch of facts into their heads.
1:25.1	Rather, they learn in order to grow as persons. That then leads
1:30.9	us to today's question. What will help them to grow? What should they learn?
1:40.3	Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.
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