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I was teaching my four year old the story of Samuel, and how he needed to be quiet and listen to hear God. She jumped in with "just like the wise old owl! The less he spoke the more he heard!". It really does all tie together and it is beautiful to watch. Once again, a wonderful discussion! Im looking forward to seeing how else MP is going to enrich my child's life 💕

I found a marvelous book that attacks memorization in a new way. The book, "Ranieri Reverse Recall" by Luke Amadeus Ranieri. It makes the process simple in the sense of starting to memorize from the end forward. Each iteration includes starting with the last sentence, so as you move along you are repeating everything and adding a sentence at a time. Well worth teaching to all students. Luke gives lessons from his life, such as learning Latin, Greek and becoming an Army helicopter pilot, memorizing all the specifications and emergency procedures.

As an adult memorization is considered to be difficult, boring, a chore to be avoided. With children, memorization is like a game to play. They don't see any difficulties, they just see the fun of achieving a goal.

I believe the memorization necessary in learning Latin is an outstanding reason to study Latin. Memorizing declensions and conjugations are perfect for developing the mind.

Where are the memory and recitation practice found in the curriculum?

I really appreciate and enjoy these discussions. I enjoy seeing the close friendship between you all. Wonderful encouragement to stay the course of classical learning. Thank you so much for sharing.

I was a public school teacher and part of my duties was to have my students learn the European and African countries. During conferences with parents, multiple were upset at this because they thought their students could just look it up. Philosophically, and granted I was young and had little to back up my convictions, I thought memorization practice was useful for brain health and to build confidence as a learner. It was jarring how few agreed with me and they removed that aspect from the curriculum. The next year I became pregnant with my first child and my husband and I decided that I would stay home and homeschool.

I agree with the importance of math facts. My oldest is approaching 4th grade, and doesn't have any multiplication memorized aside from the 2's. But she can skip count effortlessly by 3s,4s,5s,6s,7s,8s,9s, 10s, and 11s. Do you have any tips on how to memorize multiplication facts? We do drills and flash cards, but she always ends up needing to skip count to reach the answer.

This discussion was good but too focused on Rufus and Sheppard. In my mind, Norton was the protagonist of the story and the subject of the title. He was the first character in the book that was described as lame after all - pp447 line 5, ""I don't know", the child said lamely." From that perspective, the ‘reason’ for Norton doing what he did is plainly written a bit father down the passage you read out loud.-- “”When I’m dead will I go to hell or where she is?” Norton asked. “Right now you’d go where she is,” Johnson said, “but if you live long enough, you’ll go to hell.”” So Rufus explicitly told Norton what he needs to do in order to unite with his mother 'right now'. If you are reading with Norton's reception in mind, you can imagine how these words would have struck him like thunder. Of course, Sheppard, being the obtuse father he is, dismissed the comment immediately and didn’t even think about how it would impact Norton who he didn't think was bright enough to be affected by anything Rufus said. Another passage that I think is important but wasn’t mentioned in this discussion is the considerably lengthy part where O’Connor writes from Norton’s point of view. This passage really got my attention because I've rarely seen O'Connor switch povs within her short stories. It starts with a scene where the boy sits in the dark surrounded by the flower seeds. Whenever there’s a lightening, it lights up the ‘garden’ around him. Remembering that his mother was a nature lover, who liked to eat outside, this scene may be a metaphor or Norton's inner landscape - he's lost and is desperately looking for ways to find his way back - to her, in to her garden of love, back to the time when his father didn't constantly judge and condemn him to be selfish and 'not bright enough'.

Does MP press uses memorization through Music?

Love it ❤

What if Donald Trump is Coriolanus reincarnated? Does anyone see anything personalitywise about the two that would definitively rule this possibility out? I mean I died in Ancient Rome when Vesuvius blew but I was never more than a mere centurion.

Amen❤

Thank you for the encouragement!

Lists make actionable steps of these great discussions! I love these and am beginning my first book from the list tonight!

I love Mario Reading's books, wouldn't call them christian, but the main character in his books is always a religious person, a Christian. And they're quite witty and interesting. That's an ITV production, an excellent tv series Hornblower with Ioan Gruffudd.

Excellent!!

Does anyone know the name of the painting at 1:12?

Don Quijote is so funny!

Came across this story on JSTOR and was interesting enough that I read the whole thing in one sitting. God what a great story, definitely my favorite from Flannery O'Connor.

There is a Cain, a farm worker, in Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd." He explains to Bathsheba that his mother had gotten the names in the story confused.

I always come away with great information, but my favorite part of these podcasts is hearing what each of you is reading.

We have a small balcony and we keep killing plants but have learned so much from the experience.

Is the “summer reading list” accessible to us? Or are you just referring to all the books on the MP curriculum in general? 😅

Thank you for this inspiring and timely conversation. It’s the parents and the teachers who need to be first the role models to show virtuous character for their students. It’s indeed a life style, trickling down from above (and Above!). From what I see, most modern schools only put virtues on posters or turn them into slogans. Christian classical education (at least Memoria press) walks the walk, and is the only way to turn this country back to her greatness. God bless you!

With the resurgence of virtue epistemology over the past 50 years or so, there has been some good contemporary work done on intellectual virtues education. The resources that are out there help to connect the ancient ideas of character formation to the modern world.

All of the classical schools here in Australia are now infiltrated with the woke (a.k.a. Communist) agenda. They are private schools receiving government funding, making them government schools by proxy. Home school in the classical tradition is the only way for me. I am happy to take on this responsibility.

I had a classical education however there is no diploma or certificate for it.

I'm glad to hear from you guys 😁.

At first it I thought Caleb was like Kathy but half way through realized it was Aaron with that evil.

Troy is not Greek , you need to know luvian and hatties...

Fabulous video, short but more impactful than hundreds of longer KJV supporting videos out there. A Really powerful statement for the KJV. And great pictorial accompaniment to the excellent speaker.

I was going to cry "bo*****s" when I read the caption, but once I actually watched the reel I can't help but agree. As a teen, I read voraciously, but as a late teen, I got sucked into the Harry Potter world and it took me till I met my husband and my focus changed to get out of reading fanfiction for hours every day, wasting my life away trying to find some good writing amidst the ocean of swill. And it was definitely an addiction. I still like Harry Potter but I'm happy to say that 10 years on I've moved back to a more wholesome and diverse classical literary diet.

This make no sense. If Greek and Latin is so important to read the poems etc in original language, then the Bible must not be read other than in Hebrew. These languages consumed much precious time that should have been used for environment study, french etc.

I love North and South! ❤

Dude... Hearing you talk about people missing the point- I can't tell you how many people I've encountered online who think the romance between Anna Karenina and Vronsky is completely enviable. Ugh.

I read Anna Karenina one summer when my daughter was a baby.

I got so pissed when yall said Steinbeck was Samuel’s nephew lol. He never mentions Samuel having a sister. Samuel is steinbecks grandfather, not uncle lol. Steinbecks daughter, olive, married a Steinbeck in the story

Mrs Gaskell was Charlotte Bronte's biographer. :) She was (perhaps) CB's closest friend in adulthood - and the biography is wonderful.

I was listening to this in the car this morning and as Paul is trying to remember the officer from Les Miserables, I'm yelling at the phone "it's Javert!". I really loved this discussion and the article.

I'm going to use Martin's list to pick this year's summer classic. Great episode - so much literary information!

Say it. He was a Christian

Your group has gotten me into “Jayber Crow” and Wendell Berrys Port William Series

Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams” by William Godwin is an excellent book about a man’s battle with his soul against a vicious judicial system.

I may have recommended Patrick O'Brians' Aubrey/Maturin Series of 21 books about a British Naval Officer and his friend, Irish/Catalan Catholic Physician/Spy and how their relationship develops over 20+ years. Specifically Christian, no, but an excellent characterization of very different Gentleman in a superb, watery World at war in the Napoleon's Era. Definitely first rate, and the best description of Naval warships and the sailors who manned them.

I'm with Martin and Paul on cars. I've been driving the same car for over 20 years.

Thank you for the fascinating list! I love it. I’ve read 5/12 so far, 4 I’ve never heard of before, and I want to read War and Peace and The Talisman within the next year or 2. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite, I don’t know if it matches all your criteria or not but I love it. I read Dracula last year, and it was very good too, and had a fascinating amount of biblical and Christian holy day references. I had to throw away a Barnes and noble edition we had a with a nasty preface. The Ignatius Critical edition is a better copy to own. We found one of Martin’s flaws - he can’t read Norwegian. 😂

Not me chanting AK, AK, AK like it’s a sporting event 😂🎉

For many of us beginners, we need book lists because we have not yet developed the taste and experience to recognize good and great books.

Happy to see this format back. Always enjoy these discussions.