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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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 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!!
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.
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).
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.
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)
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.
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
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!
Oh yes. Very excellent. I can't remember if that's made a list on my RUclips or just within Common House but highly recommend! Thank you for adding it!
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 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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
Very happy to have you here! While I speak to mothers, we have many non-mons and classical dads in these parts!
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. 🙂
We also enjoy Abolition of Man and almost all else that Lewis has written.
St. Jack is my favorite.
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.
I’ve been looking into CM for a few years, but your channel is opening my eyes to all things Classical. So grateful for all of these helpful videos!
So happy to hear it. She's one of my favourite classical educators and I love to find how she fits the larger tradition whenever I can!
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!
Woohoo! Look at that timing! Enjoy!
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!
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!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool ❤ Thank you. 🙏
Thank you for sharing this beautiful content freely with all of us! ❤
Happy to have you here!
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!
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.
Wait did you read it all in one day? How dense is it? I’ve heard of it before, but didn’t realize that it’s a new book until this video.
@@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 always get excited when you post a new video. Love your book recommendations, so thank you!
Do you use Goodreads?
Thanks, Kimmy! I enjoy having this form for sharing ideas. I don't use Goodreads, just my commonplace book.
I love your videos! Thanks for all the suggestions!
You're so welcome! Happy reading!
Although I think we're close in age. I look up to you. 😅 I am becoming passionate about education.
Join us through the wardrobe! It's such fun on the other side!
Oh Carl Trueman was interviewed on What Is Woman.. I will have to checkout his book!
And I'll have to check out the interview.
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!!
Oh, THANK YOU. When my husband wants a new book recommendation, he always asks for something that is "just like" Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
When you said pre-modern people would've said you are the problem that made me think of the Taylor Swift song "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me!"
Hahah. I heard that chorus and thought she wrote a rather apt song.
Read Abolition of Man this year and woah... How I arrived at 38 without reading it... 🤯
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.
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: ruclips.net/video/PCUqoQvrDdA/видео.html
And I cover Charlotte Mason on unit studies!
@@hillaryenloe
@@thecommonplacehomeschool Thank you!!! I will listen ASAP! I appreciate your work and dedication to teaching others.
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.
Ah, hello! Yes, I graduated in 2012. Best wishes as you venture into school-starting!
Love this so much! Thankyou😊😊
You're quite welcome! Happy reading!
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)
100%.
Sooo good! Thank you 🙏
Enjoy the reads!
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.
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
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!
I would add “Climbing Parnassus” - A New Apologia for Greek and Latin by Tracy Lee Simmons as a must read.
Oh yes. Very excellent. I can't remember if that's made a list on my RUclips or just within Common House but highly recommend! Thank you for adding it!
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
Hhaha. Short but packed with living ideas! You can feast for months on it!
Amazing video. And can I ask where you got your dress?? Trying to build up a classic feminine wardrobe with silhouettes like these!
Of course! This is an older Madewell dress!
I read his Strange New World which is his short version of that book. :) it was very good.
I didn't know he had a shorter one but am so glad to hear it!
Excellent!
Many thanks!
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.
Thank you for sharing!! I know you are a busy mom, do you have certain times of the day you set aside for your reading?
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!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool I will have to check that out!! Do you share your yearly reading plan with everyone there?
@@pa1attention I did this year and will continue to do so!
Can you write out in the description or tag the books on the video timeline please?
Added to the description!
Thank you. Love your videos. ❤
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 😅
Ooh! Listen to Joy Clarkson's series on her podcast Speaking with Joy! She interviewed a bunch of guests about the book!
@@thecommonplacehomeschool perfect. Thanks for the suggestion
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
Are all these books Christian?
No.
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.