Fri 4 Aug 2006
Can you believe I am still doing preliminary stuff from the Circe Conference?
Another member of the Wild Bunch, Lynne S is blogging through her notes. I don’t want to read her newest post until I get my notes up. Then we can compare. I can’t figure out how to use links in this new setting so just check out my sidebar for Lynne from Classed [Edit: Link above helpfully added by the administrator]. Every summer I do extensive homeschool planning. This summer I was so discouraged about a few homeschool issues, I decided to totally drop any planning and wait on the Lord. I am so glad that I didn’t come home from Circe with a whole slew of plans to scrap or change.
In the meantime, it looks like we may be moving to Tennessee quickly. Maybe, maybe not, which does rather complicate homeschooling.
Here is the list of items I bought, without links, at the Circe conference.
How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf. This is a reprint of an older children’s book. This is a book for children about how to be honest, fair, strong and wise. My 2 little boys love it already.
The Way of Ingnorance by Wendell Berry
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry. A book I have been meaning to read forever.
Home Economics by …….Wendell Berry.
Poetic Knowledge by James Taylor. I am terribly excited about this book. Dr Taylor was not the head-in-the-clouds type I imagined him to be. I expect this book to be infinitely practical and inspiring. Although, I am brimful of inspiration right now.
Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons. I hope as I read through this we can open up the discussion of: why Latin.
I also bought the complete conference cd’s and hope to relisten to many lectures and also hear the ones I missed. Only problem, there are 30 lectures on my set. I am not likely to fit that in any time soon.
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You are clearly a classical educator, not a Charlotte Mason one, as you’ve been claiming.
Comment by Jo (August 4, 2006 @ 2:44 pm )
Jo,
I don’t think you can draw that line so distinctly. I think Charlotte Mason is the strongest tie to poetic knowledge that we currently have.
Nor do I understand this desire to put me in a box. I believe that ideas have consequences. The ideas of CM have borne fruit in my life. The ideas of classical education have produced fruit in my life. Agrarian ideas have infilterated and blossomed in my life. Where is the contradiction?
Comment by Cindy (August 4, 2006 @ 2:58 pm )
Thank-you, Administrator!
Comment by Cindy (August 4, 2006 @ 3:01 pm )
Also Jo, would you be willing to define what you do view as CM?
Comment by Cindy (August 4, 2006 @ 3:08 pm )
Cindy, almost every Wendell Berry book I own I bought from Bookcloseouts at a significant discount. They are often available there. I think I saw that Munro Leaf book at BCO recently, too.
I am enjoying vicariously living your mountaintop experience. Please keep us informed about moving plans, and you had better email me the new address once it is known.
Comment by Carmon (August 5, 2006 @ 1:19 am )
I hope you’ll really enjoy *Poetic Knowledge*. I took pages of notes on it when I read it about a year ago, and it just so happens that I was thinking yesterday about rereading it. And I do think that there are similarities with CM.
I remember reading in a John Holt book years ago that if you really want to know what educational method someone follows, you have to see that they’re doing from day to day. He listed examples (if I’m not butchering this, which I probably am) of schools that claimed to be Montessori but had lots of pretend play, and those who claimed to be strictly Behaviorist and were anything but. I think philosophy also has an influence, of course, but I think his point is a good one, if only because I’m sure that some of the reason I am attracted to one philosophy or another is to correct what I consider to be a tendency to drift in the other direction. This is all just to say that labels are useful in some ways, but our lives are usually more complex than a simple label can convey!
Comment by Laura A (August 5, 2006 @ 6:58 am )