Christ taught the disciples with stories. The bible is full of stories that pierce our hearts and change our lives. That's what makes the methods of education that Charlotte Mason proposed work. They aren't necessarily her invention. She was just pointing to our design. Reading and narrating are at the heart of her educational method. That and our personhood.
He also spoke of abstract time and narrative time. Merrium Webster defines abstract as: having only form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation or narrative content. For example; life being measured by clock or calendar. It defines narrative as thus: : to tell (as a story) in detail ; also :to provide spoken commentary for. So, for example; Grandmother comes when the crepe myrtle blooms.
I really pondered where I want my children to grow up. Haunted and driven by the clock, or slow and intentional measuring life's great events by seasons and blooms. You can guess I'm sure.
Hello there! I wanted to connect here, to say a bigbigbig THANK YOU for all you shared with us at the CMI conference in Ferrum! I am Sally, one of the mothers you blessed so richly! I had the baby, Ocie Jane, in the rainbow sling, giving props for your nursing at the conference :) This was my first conference and I came away with far more than I could ever have imagined (or is that "could have ever imagined?") and you are part of that. Thank you so much for being you!
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