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Published: June 2, 2020, 5 a.m.

On this week\u2019s episode of The Literary Life podcast, our hosts have a converation about Simone Weil\u2019s essay \u201cReflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God\u201c. Angelina Stanford opens this discussion talking about stories as a lens to see other perspectives, rather than our own. Thomas Banks gives some biographical information on Simone Weil. Cindy Rollins highlights the connections she made from this essay to Charlotte Mason and Stratford Caldecott, especially in regards to attention and remembrance.

They talk about the problems of being counter-cultural in education, pride versus humility as an end of education, and training of the will. Cindy and Angelina emphasize the importance of the work of education over \u201cmaking the grade.\u201d Thomas reads a quote from Weil on keeping periods of focused work brief, and Cindy expounds on how this concept was also very important to Charlotte Mason. Angelina talks about her own conviction in reading Weil\u2019s words about learning from those subjects which do not come easily for us. The conversation wraps up with our hosts talking about waiting on God instead of trying to force results, in all areas of our lives.\xa0

Until next time, check out our Upcoming Events page to view our summer schedule and see what we will be reading together next! Don\u2019t forget to check out the summer courses and webinars that Angelina and Thomas have coming up over at HouseofHumaneLetters.com!

Commonplace Quotes:

When we think of a friend, we do not count that a lost thought, though the friend never knew of it.

John Donne

Oxford is, Lewis said, a \u201cdangerous place for a book lover. Every second shop has something you want.\u201d According to Warren Lewis, his brother soon learned to discipline such inclinations: \u201cIn his younger days he was something of a bibliophile, but in middle and later life very seldom bought a book if he could consult it in the Bodleian: long years of poverty, self-inflicted but grinding, had made this economical habit second nature to him\u2014a fact that contributed, no doubt, to the extra-ordinarily retentive character of his memory.\u201d

Clyde Kilby

Children are always seeking out new experiences, and they find them in stories when adults do not spoil these stories by superimposing concepts or rules over the narrative.

Vigen Guroian

Peace

by Henry Vaughn

My Soul, there is a country\xa0
Afar beyond the stars,\xa0
Where stands a winged sentry\xa0
All skillful in the wars;\xa0
There, above noise and danger\xa0
Sweet Peace sits, crown\u2019d with smiles,\xa0
And One born in a manger\xa0
Commands the beauteous files.\xa0
He is thy gracious friend\xa0
And (O my Soul awake!)\xa0
Did in pure love descend,\xa0
To die here for thy sake.\xa0
If thou canst get but thither,\xa0
There grows the flow\u2019r of peace,\xa0
The rose that cannot wither,\xa0
Thy fortress, and thy ease.\xa0
Leave then thy foolish ranges,\xa0
For none can thee secure,\xa0
But One, who never changes,\xa0
Thy God, thy life, thy cure.

Book List:

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C. S. Lewis: Images of His World by Douglas R. Gilbert and Clyde Kilby

Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian

Phantastes by George MacDonald

Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott

Range by David Epstein

Love in the Void by Simone Weil

Trojan Women by Euripedes

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