hat if we could put together Charlotte Mason, Socrates, Aristotle, and MBTI as a way of understanding one aspect of education? Wouldn't that be ... totally daring? And also totally fun? That's what we're doing today. It's like a party for your Afterthinking mind! He he. I was rereading a bit of what Charlotte Mason wrote in Formation of Character yesterday. It's quite lengthy, so we can only look at part of the section she calls Better-Than-My-Neighbor, but it's brimming with good Continue Reading
A Classical History of the Principle of Alternation (a Vittorino da Feltre post)
as Vittorino da Feltre the First Charlotte Mason? Well, of course not. It's not like many of his ideas were original. Like all good educational philosophers who are also practitioners, he took the wealth of the past and applied it to his own circumstances. Still, it's a fun question to ask because some of the similarities are so striking. Today, we'll look at another similarity (if you missed it, we discussed atmosphere and discipline last time): Vittorino's use of the principle of Continue Reading
Atmosphere and Discipline with Vittorino da Feltre
n my reading of Vittorino de Feltre and Other Humanist Educators, I'm still hovering around pages 25-40 or so. I find there is so much to think about that I keep revisiting the pages; I've been allowing myself a slow digestion. Most of you know that Charlotte Mason says that we have three (and only three) tools of education: atmosphere, discipline, and life. Atmosphere isn't contrived; it's the real culture of the home or school room. Discipline is the collection of habits we build in order Continue Reading
Vittorino da Feltre, the First P.E. Teacher
ike many of you, I’m joining Brandy on her journey through W.H. Woodward’s Vittorino de Feltre and Other Humanist Educators: Essays and Versions: An Introduction to the History of Classical Education, a book Charlotte Mason highly recommended. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Vittorino has an important place in the history of physical education. In fact, one might call him the first official P.E. teacher due to his formal inclusion of physical training for students of all ages beginning Continue Reading