SC006: The Best Teacher

Summary: Welcome to The Simply Convivial Audio Blog! Releasing weekly on Wednesdays, this podcast brings you short &amp; meaty focus sessions to help you keep your head in the game as a classical homeschool mom. Check out the <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/audio">podcast page here</a> and please <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/review">leave a review</a>. Thanks!<br> repetitio mater memoriae, or Repetition<br> <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ch-season1">Season 1: Education is For Life</a><br> This Latin motto, which apparently is used within the Latin classroom primarily and not embraced as a defining motto like the others so far, means Repetition is the mother of memory. This is supposed to spur you on to chant those declensions, but I think the truth contained therein should spur us on in much more than language acquisition.<br> What adjectives do you associate with repetition?<br> Dullness, boredom, monotony.<br> What about training, practice, discipline, rehearsal.<br> Pianists practice the same scales and pieces over and over daily.<br> Actors rehearse their scenes over and over.<br> Athletes practice the same drills over and over daily.<br> <br> Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.<br> <br> In the same way, we must repent, pray, read our Bible, speak kindly, admonish, rejoice, give thanks daily, even multiple times daily. We must do so to become good at them, to become fit and trained in holiness, to imitate and glorify our Father.<br> <br> Read the original post: <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2014/education-is-for-life-repetitio-mater-memoriae-or-repetition">The Best Teacher, repetitio mater memoriae</a><br> Listen:<br> Read the original post: <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2013/education-is-for-life-cum-dignitate-otium-or-rest">Living from Rest – cum dignitate otium</a><br> Resources:<br> <br> * Dr. Perrin’s lecture “<a href="http://insideclassicaled.com/the-eight-essential-principles-of-classical-pedagogy/">Eight Essential Principles of Classical Education</a><br> * <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2014/rejoicing-in-repetition-an-annotated-bibliography">Rejoicing in Repetition</a> by Mystie Winckler<br> * <a href="http://amzn.to/2clDkri">Orthodoxy</a> by G.K. Chesterton<br> * <a href="http://amzn.to/2cFzWIq">Quotidian Mysteries</a> by Kathleen Norris<br> <br> Simple Sanity Saver: Brain Dump<br> When does the brilliant idea strike?<br> When do you remember you’re desperately low on milk?<br> It’s rarely when you’re actually sitting down, pen in hand, to make a relevant list.<br> But if you don’t write it down right away, it’s gone.<br> Hence, the need for <a href="https://www.simplifiedorganization.com/2014/ubiquitous-capture-write-it-down-right-away/">ubiquitous capture</a>.<br> Ubiquitous capture is a term from David Allen’s <a href="http://amzn.to/2cT3ggy">Getting Things Done</a> that basically means you should always have a way to write down, right away, any information you need to have rather than assuming you’ll remember it or remember to write it down later.<br> <br> * If an event or plan is mentioned, put it on the calendar right then.<br> * If I pull out the last bag of flour, add it to the grocery list immediately.<br> * If I say I’ll bring something to someplace, make that note.<br> * If I realize I need to do this or that, get it into Remember the Milk right away.<br> <br> My personal ability to keep any information or reminders in my head has been practically nil the last few years, so I’ll be following the advice in <a href="http://amzn.to/2cT3ggy">Getting Things Done</a>:<br> <br> These collection tools should become part of your lifestyle. Keep them close by so no matter where you are you can collect a potentially valuable thought — think of them as being as indispensable a...