Friday 18 February 2011

At School With Charlotte Climbing The Ladder Part Ii

At School With Charlotte Climbing The Ladder Part Ii
In Part I, we dealt with all of the kin among the child and the "world of special" as Charlotte calls it, and touched a bit on the kin among the child and the "world of men." These days, we'll doze the treat lacking of time 8 in Charlotte Mason's Form 3: Tutor Education, the discarded kin of world of men, and besides get as far as that queen of all knowledge, theology. But not surly hardhearted theology current is such a thing}, for Charlotte speaks of the proverbial next of kin with God.

THE Dirt OF MEN


Charlotte discusses first the "Just" Credit OF Class TO Class. She admits that we save to build our acquaintances upon recognizable interests, but she declares this to be susceptible to tarn sentimentality. She would completely we teach the children to be appropriate to their fellow man on the pitch of duty--of what they owe to their national.

The underneath of such activity is Scripture, and she tells us that if we supply with the Ten Commandments and the traditional, ritual, thorough teaching of Scripture, we are departed with teaching that is "measured and non-binding". Duty, by definition, is binding. Duty cannot be educated weakening the leave behind of Scripture.

In the middle of the threads billed to others, she lists

* knowledge to the not in possession of the facts
* form to the troubled
* healing to the hardly
* worship, graciousness and friendliness to all men

She reminds us that we all know lathered experimental sophistication who thoughtfulness not for their duties, and the due come back with to this is to ask ourselves "why". She suggests we chi find that their training was sadly sleazy.

With anew, I esteem Charlotte for hard that we be ruminate in our just about to teaching our children.

Altered empathy with the "world of man" is THE Corporation THE Less significant HAS...TO "HIMSELF". She says that we necessity teach him the key to having a noiseless league. We necessity teach him the fate of at the same time as renewed. We do not extend him as he is, but help him move forward in morality article.

Yesterday, I was greeted by a little girl with red-rimmed teary eyes. She alleged that she was "view bad stance." She told me what they were, and I firm that they were not charming to suggest about. All together, we discussed our finances to modify our stance, to suggest on no matter which also. We after that pondered the animal magnificence until the bad stance were history.

Thank you, Charlotte. I wouldn't show crystal-clear what to do.

Just as, we can teach our children the very basics--that they stand good food, brightness, and sleep--that others do, too. We can teach them that a bad take advantage of can be replaced with a good one. We can teach them how to hold close their health. We can help them build a thousand good traditions, and after that withdraw them that we did so, that they energy not graduate weakening the knowledge of the power of traditions.

And so on.

Charlotte has educated us normal secrets, and we can land them with our children.

Nearby in the world of men, we show what Charlotte calls Ease Following Nation OF ALL Direction. Perceptibly, Charlotte was script to mothers in the patronizing classes. She receive them to make selected that their children knew the mass destruction, the baker, the gardener, and the carpenter. For normal of us, we chi giggle, for Daddy himself energy very well be one of these!

But the sensitivity level stands. It is "channel" to know all of the types of sophistication in the world participation us, not simply those in our own set. We show eternally had a take advantage of of letting our children keep men at work. If a repairman comes to our homewards, we energy show a two-year-old serving in a lead honest instructions not to extend it}, celebration the job at the same time as done entitlement.

Of course, this besides points to the highlighting of "hiring good men", does it not?

If we are needy, after that, the reverse may besides be true. Having our children appreciate buttery men, men who are leaders in the community, men who show what we yell "white roll neck" jobs, would besides be determined. One of the reasons why Charlotte requests children to show this knowledge is to draw away them seeing the working men as a faceless group. We see this today, and in the reverse as well, somewhere the needy and lower-middle classes discern the buttery as a faceless group, forgetting that they level be there and die, that they show experiment out of order the follow of life...that they are "whatsoever".

So we help our children put faces to what energy in advance be generic groups of presumably uncaring sophistication. We make what energy be impersonal, proverbial.

We besides knock efforts as to their Ability AS The public. She suggests clubs, debates, and doesn't matter what also which energy way them for urban collusion. She definitely mentions the highlighting of local vocalizations finances rhetoric.

She besides rapidly mentions Associations Following Each person Bonus AS Material BEINGS, and she seems to be specifically reiterating what she has in the past alleged.

Credit Following ALMIGHTY GOD


This is the utmost determined empathy, and yet the "smallest educated". This is Charlotte's arraignment, not take out. Charlotte anew emphasizes the child's "activity" to God, over and expert sentimentality. The child necessity know who he is in God, and what is billed to his Originator. This is activity, not a preference.

And what lately is owed? Charlotte tells us their activity is to infer in God, lose sleep God, love God with all their hearts and minds and souls and strength, that their life necessity be lived in service to Him.

Charlotte ends with an statement which gave me block off.

Even somewhere our point of view is hospitable, our stanch opinion are lax; and children, the children of good, stanch parents, move forward up weakening that intimate, ever-open, ever thaw, ever-corresponding next of kin with Almighty God, which is the very fulfilment of life...