I’d also like to talk about the gems that I took away with me from the Carole Joy Seid Seminar on a Literature Based Education.
Reading to children doesn’t stop when the kids can read for themselves.
I think as busy people, this is a mistake we make. We read to the kids until they can read for themselves [...]
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The Gems from the Seminar I
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers, The Well Educated Mind, tagged Carole Joy Seid, Charlotte Mason on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back From A Seminar
Posted in Educating the Whippersnappers, The Well Educated Mind, tagged Carole Joy Seid, Charlotte Mason on May 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rome and I went to a Carole Joy Seid seminar last Saturday. I walked in with strong Charlotte Mason leanings thinking I would walk out a Charlotte Mason devotee. (Charlotte Mason was a 19th century British educator). But I didn’t. The seminar wasn’t what I was expecting. It was called A Literature Based Approach to Education and I guess I [...]
Don Quixote – The Translator’s Job
Posted in Don Quixote, The Well Educated Mind on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m on chapter six of Don Quixote and I’ve got to wonder what one has to read to be the translator of a Spanish text that is 400 years old. Chapter six has DQ’s two closest friends going through his collection of romantic-chivalrous books and deciding which to save and which to burn.
This chapter lists several of the [...]
Don Quixote
Posted in Daily Life - Daily Blessings, Don Quixote, The Well Educated Mind on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I spent the Fall and Winter months of this pregnancy reading my sister’s copy of The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer– an absolutely inspiring book about classical education and how to do it (in children). Last summer, I also started slogging my way through The Charlotte Mason Companion. For those of you unfamiliar [...]
