Love…Love…Love this! As a grandmother who tried to do classical and CM in the 90s with no/very few internet mentors and helps, I am so thankful for your passion to encourage and equip. I’m watching and learning so I can support my daughters hs-ing my grands. ❤
Oh, Cindy! I love this. I hope to be such a support to my children in the future! And way to be a true renegade in the 90s and aim for the good stuff. I can't imagine how hard it would've been for me to come across classical education back then.
In the 90s I was studying Humanities with a Classics Professor who took the class on a field trip to have the opportunity to read ancient Greek off of pottery to us. He eventually became my wife's catechism director when she converted. I can't imagine delving into this pool, initially, without having had that guide. I should publish my notes from that class. It was exceptional.
How do I start to form another little person better than I was formed myself? Overcoming my own terrible habits to build new ones is incredibly difficult.
Oh yes. This is a thing. Consider your children's education/life at home as an education for yourself. Do it with them. We talk about this a lot in Common House!
We (husband and I) JUST finished leading a Sunday morning 10-week study/intellectual discipleship class on the layperson's abbreviation of Rise and Triumph! Once seen, the things in the book cannot be unseen, and that's a good thing. 🙂
And how fantastic that you did this! I didn't realize there was a layperson's version but, goodness, yes, you cannot unsee what you learn from his ideas!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Strange New World, which Trueman also wrote. It does cut out a good portion of the argument and historical connections, but is less than a third of the length of Rise and Triumph.
Not a mother, but a father who is greatly interested in learning a Classical Education for myself, and also to help teach my children this way as well. Thank you for the recommendations!
Literally just rewatched the mother culture book suggestion video and magically this appeared! Couldn’t be more excited and grateful 😇 thank you so much for your resources!
Have you ever seen that picture of the conspiracy theorist with all of the red lines connecting a board of pictures and papers? That's me talking about the Abolition of Man. *Everything* connects.
Plato would have 100% known what anybody may mean when they said they're a woman trapped in a man's body. Everybody was trapped in material bodies for Plato and, well, the Anima. I mean I would want these folk not just to write about past thinkers but to have actually tried to understand them. Everything, especially modern identity theory, is a footnote on Plato, to use that old quote.
It's been awhile since I recorded this one but I think I said something about our grandparents/great-grandparents not being able to understand the idea (which is Dr. Trueman's opening point) as we mean it today. His argument is not drawing from Plato specifically but rather tracing the sexual identity/expressive individual shifts from about the 1500s (rather than in the last generation or so). It's not an exhaustive overview by any means but a good introduction to worldview, social imaginary, and the difference between external identity markers vs. internal. As for Plato, I can see what you mean. In the Republic, he seems to do away with gender (except for childbirth) for the sake of the state (men and women can do everything in the city). I believe Aristotle disagreed? Held more of a gender line? Anyway, I bring up the "sake of the city" because part of Trueman's argument is that historically we derived our identity from external sources: polis, church, family, work, etc. The phrase "woman in a man's body" as it's meant today is because our identities are formed from within (a rather large shift), dependent on a sexualized self. So it's less trapped in a material body and more identity formation.
I was just registering to older videos the other day, wondering when season 3 of the podcast would begun, and then today I go to stitcher looking for something completely different and there it is!!! Thank you for all you're doing. Charlotte Mason has completely transformed not just our homeschool, but every area of our daily lives and you've been a huge part of that, so thank you again!
Marie, thank you! She has done a work in my home (and school) too! The pod break was a little longer than I intended and I'm so happy it's back. It's my favorite part of The CP!
This video is very confusing, the lady talking very fast and sounds a bit like a hundred chickens at the same time...and it all seems very confusing...Middlemarch?!?...Modern/pre-modern man?!? This way of talking about these things is to me... strange...perhaps it is just very...well American?
So sorry it wasn’t a help to you! I have many videos defining the general ideas of classical education if you want to check them out! May still sound like one hundred chickens though.
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Thank you. You are kind. In my culture we learn to talk low, and slow...culture clash to listen to an American female. I had a classical education and so did all my family. Not much else to be had here when I grew up. Today ot is different, that is why you video interested me. But too much culture clash in many ways for me to be able to make anything out from your videos. These things happens. Good luck with your mission.
I read Piranesi today thanks to your suggestion and really enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing!! I ordered Humility and a few of the other titles you suggested. I can’t wait for them to arrive. You give such wonderful suggestions.
@@SwissAdelina I did! I had 5.5 hour car ride, otherwise I would have taken longer. I was able to read it between chatting with my husband and a couple naps. I’d say once you get passed the first few pages you really end up flying through it. It took a little to get use to the dating of the journal entry titles for some reason. Haha I’m not sure why that threw me. As soon as you start to get use to that and familiar with the ‘voice’ used, it’s smooth sailing!
The dating of the journals tripped me up too! I kept thinking I had to decode something in the dates...ha! I'm so glad you enjoyed the book. It was my favorite book of the year for 2021!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Joy Clarkson did a series of interviews discussing Piranesi with others and it's fantastic. Highly recommend (Speaking with Joy)!
I thought your comments about unit studies were curious. I'd love to hear your take on unschooling and the book "Free to Learn." I thought it was interesting that he tells you right at the beginning that he's an atheist and it felt like the whole book was reinforcing individualism which I think you were alluding to at the beginning of this video when talking about the idea of the self.
I haven't read that book so I can't share any thoughts! I always ask three questions of any educational philosophy: What is a person? How are we formed? To what end ought we aim? Each philosophy has an answer to them and they're not always great.
I am very interested in your unit study thoughts too. Really have me thinking! Not to negatively speak ill of another style but the lens at which you see things. (Due to your well read, thoughtful work).
I made this one last year: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PCUqoQvrDdA.html And I cover Charlotte Mason on unit studies! @@hillaryenloe
Your videos are really helpful as I explore how to a start a CM-inspired school. You mentioned Carl Trueman is a prof at your alma mater. You’re a GCC grad? Me too.
I LOVED Piranesi. This has little to do with classical education, but if you enjoyed Susanna Clarke’s work, I strongly recommend Erin Morgenstern’s novels, specifically “The Starless Sea. “ It reminds me a lot of Piranesi!!
I mean the mechanics will look the same. There's only so many ways to form letters for example. But why and how you care about good penmanship is different. Which is the more important part. The whole system is basically working against you every step of the way. The atmosphere is wrong. And no single teacher can counter that. As an aside, Actual mathematians are often mystics. There's a whole school of thought that sees it as the beautiful language of the universe that you discover. It's the biologists and down that are more often the dogmatic materialists Thanks for the recommendations. I find myself in search of living ideas atm. Until we have faces and the third book in the space trilogy are two of the very few Lewis books I haven't read yet. I've been meaning to read the rise and Triumph of the modern self for a while now
Oh, I think you'll really love those books. Til We Have Faces is one of my favorites and That Hideous Strength is a painful, accurate picture of losing the cosmic imaginary for a machine.
You can go anywhere you want if you read a book. People constantly say if time machines were real. Well they are through books, music and tv shows( if you watch tv)
What a fantastic list. I got about halfway through Rise and Triumph before it had to go back to the library. Definitely one I'd like to purchase, though, so I plan to pick it up again. Did you know that he wrote a more "accessible," less academic alternative to that tome called Strange New World? I've not read it, so can't vouch for it, but maybe a good one to recommend if you're able to vet it. Lastly, I wonder if you have ever read any of John Paull II's writings from his Theology of the Body, and if so, if you've ever talked or written about your thoughts on it. Anyway, thank you for your videos! We have baby number six on the way in October, and as much as I love homeschooling, I'm feeling so burned out and unable to meet everyone's needs in this season. We're really praying our big kids get into the CM Cottage School in our town next year-- what a gift that would be. Peace to you!
I just found out about it from the comments on this video! I need to check it out. Rise and Triumph can be hard to hang in. I haven't read Theology of the Body but it is on my list! Congratulations on baby #6! Amazing. I have dreams of opening a cottage/classical school one day. They are real gifts when you have one!
Hi Autumn. Have you shared any thoughts on high school level books you’d want your kids to read, or books you wish you’d read, or books to be considered “not to be missed” for the upper levels?
Hey there! Not yet. But I recommend this list (linked below) or the reading list for St. John's (linked below): 1. seascs.net/documents/2017/10/John%20Senior%20The%20Thousand%20Good%20Books%20List.pdf 2. www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list
Yay summer reading! I already own 3 on this list ( acquired from before i tamed my book glutony)....but i think I'll read first Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
I'm a new subscriber here. I love your content, and though I'm almost in my 60's, and I'm not a Grandmother, I'm absorbing this content to feed my own mind and soul. I would have loved to have been raised on CM, and in turn would have raised my daughter this way. It would have spared our family much grief of the modern educational system, which I really loathe. I feel very much on the same page as yourself, Autumn, with your love of good books, and replacing your smartphone with "dumb phone". I'm being educated here, for which I thank you so much.
I'm so happy to have you here! And for the reminder to all that these are ideas for all people, and ideas are some of the best foundations for friendships across the usual boundaries!
Do you have any reviews or notes on Piranesi?? We are trying to read it as a Classical Homeschool community and I'm feeling like I'm not smart enough to explain it 😅
Wow. Amazing book and amazing recommendation to listen to Joy. I feel like a new human after finishing the book. Just wow!! Definitely a must read for all
I do! We actually cover the "literary life" in detail in Common House but I usually have a bit of time before the kids are up, while my husband and I drink coffee during their breakfast time, my mother culture block mid-day, and before bed. I read different things during each of those times based on my literary life reading list (made in January to chart my course!). I also grab minutes here and there when we're outside during the summer and the kids are busy playing!
