SS #12: Close Encounters of the Other Kind (with Kathy Wickward)
My guest today is Kathy Wickward, former homeschool mom (she’s graduated, folks!), one of the founders of CM West, and one of the masterminds behind AmblesideOnline‘s living science curriculum. On today’s show, Kathy and I discuss leading our children through encounters with viewpoints with which we don’t agree. Is there ever an age not to do this? And how DO we do this? Kathy shares with us her theory of six degrees of separation from a subject, and more!
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Show Notes:
- Scholé RDA
- Kathy:
Lilian Russell: A Biography of a “America’s Beauty” by Armond Fields
Life’s Matrix: The Biography of Water by Philip Ball {also mentioned}
- Brandy:
The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollock
- Kathy:
- Topical Discussion: Close Encounters of the Other Kind
- Kathy’s Guest Post on Afterthoughts — Encountering Opposing Ideas: A Catholic Reads Westward Ho!
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
Plutarch (guide by Anne White)
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason
The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer
Thirteen Things That Don’t Make Sense by Michael Brooks
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- History Through Different Lenses: Comparing Bauer with Foster
- Reading History from Different Perspectives
Churchill’s History of the English Speaking People
Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy Sayers
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Nitty Gritty Homeschool Question
- AmblesideOnline
- AO Forum
- Harvard 5 foot shelf of books
- Mortimer Adler’s list of books every educated person should read
David McCullough
- Nathaniel Filbrick:
P.W. Atkins books
- 1000 Good Books List
Kim by Ruyard Kipling
- Posts on Mothers’s Education Course:
The Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
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