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Episode 298: Balancing Expectations

2025/4/4
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Emily Kaiser: 在夏洛特·梅森教育中，我们常常会遇到各种挑战，而这些挑战往往并非源于教材或学习材料本身，而是由于我们自身的期望与现实情况之间存在偏差。本期节目探讨了我们在有意识或无意识中抱持的一些不平衡的期望，这些期望与夏洛特·梅森预期的教育结果相冲突。通过回归夏洛特·梅森教育法的基本原则，我们可以找到平衡，从而获得内心的平静。 夏洛特·梅森认为，孩子的学习是为了成长，获取新思想是维持心灵成长的必要养分，而教师的职责是提供孩子所需的知识，其余的（品格、行为、效率、能力）则会自然而然地发展。我们不应以刻板的年龄标准或与其他孩子比较来衡量孩子的学习成果，而应关注孩子的成长和进步。她强调培养孩子的智力习惯（注意力、专注力、彻底性、意志力、准确性、反思能力），而不是追求完美的执行结果。 我们对孩子的期望可能是不切实际的，例如，过早地设定学习目标，忽视孩子的个体差异和学习进度。我们不应该仅仅围绕孩子的兴趣制定课程，也不应该因为孩子不喜欢而移除所有他不感兴趣的学习内容。学习不应仅仅是为了娱乐，而应该注重知识的获取和思想的启迪。夏洛特·梅森的教育体系全面而广泛，我们不应随意挑选或忽略某些方面。我们对孩子成功的期望不应该局限于世俗的标准（例如，找到一份好工作），而应该相信上帝对每个孩子的计划是独一无二的，即使孩子从事体力劳动，他们的心灵也需要滋养，阅读和学习依然重要。 我们对单节课的期望可能过高，期望取得的进步超过了夏洛特·梅森方法的预期，或者缺乏持续性。夏洛特·梅森的课程目标是让孩子获得新的思想，但我们不应期望每节课都能找到“核心思想”。我们应该努力上好每一节课，但不要期望每节课都完美无缺，重要的是持续的努力。夏洛特·梅森的教学方法并非死板的公式，我们应该根据具体情况灵活调整。不要过分关注完成课程的数量，而应关注孩子对知识的吸收和理解，以及知识的长期积累。长期坚持夏洛特·梅森的方法，孩子最终能够取得令人惊叹的成就。 不要期望孩子喜欢每一本书，也不要期望他们第一次阅读就能完全理解和掌握所有内容。夏洛特·梅森认为，教学的目的是让孩子获得新的思想和心智图像，如果一天没有获得新的思想，那么这一天就被浪费了。期末考试不应仅仅作为衡量孩子学习成果的工具，也应作为教师反思教学方法的机会。期末考试应该关注孩子的进步，而不是与其他孩子或之前的成绩进行比较。夏洛特·梅森认为，考试应该是对教师和学生都有益的鼓励和帮助。如果孩子尽力而为，并且对学习内容感兴趣，那么他们的考试成绩就是令人满意的。 回顾夏洛特·梅森时代家长所拥有的有限资源，有助于我们平衡对课程和自身的期望。不要因为无法做到完美而放弃夏洛特·梅森教育，要从自己能够做到的事情开始，循序渐进。不要因为没有达到预期目标而放弃，要坚持下去，学期结束后，放下那些未完成的任务，从新的学期开始。 Liz Cattrall: (补充观点，与Emily Kaiser观点相呼应，并提供具体案例) Nicole Williams: (补充观点，与Emily Kaiser观点相呼应，并提供具体案例)

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This chapter explores the sources of unbalanced expectations in Charlotte Mason education, including personal upbringing, societal pressures, and arbitrary standards. It highlights the importance of regularly assessing these expectations and aligning them with Charlotte Mason's philosophy.
  • Unbalanced expectations often stem from personal upbringing, societal pressures, and arbitrary standards.
  • Regular self-assessment is crucial to align expectations with Charlotte Mason's principles.
  • Mismatched expectations can lead to internal conflict regarding homeschooling experiences.

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Often when we encounter a difficulty in our Charlotte Mason education, the problem lies not in the books and materials, but rather in a mismatch between our expectations and the reality we see before us. In this episode of the podcast, we explore the unbalanced expectations we consciously and unconsciously embrace that are at odds with the outcomes Charlotte Mason expected. In returning to the principles of our educational method, we can find balance, and thereby, peace.

"If we realise that the mind and knowledge are like two members of a ball and socket joint, two limbs of a pair of scissors, fitted to each other, necessary to each other and acting only in concert, we shall understand that our function as teachers is to supply children with the rations of knowledge which they require; and that the rest, character and conduct, efficiency and ability...take care of themselves." (6/241)

"We need not ask what the girl or boy likes. She very often likes the twaddle of goody-goody storybooks, he like condiments, highly-spices tales of adventure. We are all capable of liking mental food of a poor quality." (3/168)

"It is a wide progamme founded on the educational rights of man; wide, but we may not say it is impossible nor may we pick and choose and educate him in this direction but not that...Our part it seems to me is to give a child a vital hold upon as many as possible of those relationships proper to him." (6/157)

"Therefore, if the business of teaching be to furnish the child with ideas, any teaching which does not leave him possessed of a new mental image has, by so far, missed its mark. It is not too much to say that a morning in which a child receives no new idea is a morning wasted, however closely the little student has been kept at his books." (1/173)"If it is the best a child can do and shows interest and effort, then it is satisfactory or 'good'" (Exam Pamphlet))

Beauty & Truth Math)

Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books)

Notes of Lessons): Sample lessons from CM trained teachers in her training college

Episode 233: Method of Lessons)

Episode 229: Exams)

Examination and the P.U.S.Pamphlet)

ADE's Exam Planner): A Teacher Help for preparing and executing exams for all Form Levels

Living Book Press)

ADE Teacher Training Videos)