{"id":1781,"date":"2023-09-29T12:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2024-11-26T16:31:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T21:31:36","slug":"video-series-part-7-the-importance-of-atmosphere-chapter-four-the-teacher-and-the-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/video-series-part-7-the-importance-of-atmosphere-chapter-four-the-teacher-and-the-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Series Part 7. 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The Importance of Atmosphere<br \/>\nChapter Four: The Teacher and the Atmosphere&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:30|text_align:left|color:%23020202&#8243;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_separator width_in_percentages=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/100226311?share=copy&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_separator width_in_percentages=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_column_text]Charlotte Mason proposes the need to \u2018rectify\u2019 our view of authority and how authority rightly \u2018vested in the office\u2019 of the teacher impacts the learning atmosphere. Miss Mason explains how authority is not autocratic rule but rather it is a mantle to wear with dignity and confidence. The teacher walks in authority, is under authority, and is ever aware that she stands always on Holy ground before the children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Part 7 of our <a href=\"https:\/\/amblesideschools.org\/the-ambleside-difference\/\">video and discussion guides<\/a>, we explore and consider what right authority looks like at Ambleside Schools.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_separator width_in_percentages=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;30&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>Authority, vested in the Office<\/strong>. \u2013It is by these countercurrents, so to speak, of mind forces that we have been taught to rectify our notion of authority. Easily within living memory we were upon dangerous ground. We believed that authority was vested in persons, that arbitrary action became such persons, that slavish obedience was good for the others. This theory of government we derived from our religion; we believed in the &#8216;divine right&#8217; of kings and of parents because we believed that the very will of God was an arbitrary will. But we have been taught better; we know now that authority is vested in the office and not in the person; that the moment it is treated as a personal attribute it is forfeited. We know that a person in authority is a person authorized; and that he who is authorized is under authority. The person under authority holds and fulfills a trust; in so far as he asserts himself; governs upon the impulse of his own will, he ceases to be authoritative and authorized, and becomes arbitrary and autocratic. It is autocracy and arbitrary rule, which must be enforced, at all points, by a penal code; hence the confusion of thought which exists as to the connection between authority and punishment. The despot rules by terror; he punishes right and left to uphold his unauthorized sway. The person who is vested with authority, on the contrary, requires no rigors of the law to bolster him up, because authority is behind him; and, before him, the corresponding principle of docility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Autocracy is defined as independent or self-derived power. Authority, on the other hand, may qualify as not being self-derived and not independent. The centurion in the Gospels says: &#8220;I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, &#8216;Go,&#8217; and he goeth; another, &#8216;Come,&#8217; and he cometh; and to my servant, &#8216;Do this,&#8217; and he doeth it.&#8221; Here we have the powers and the limitations of authority. The centurion is set under authority, or, as we say, authorized, and, for that reason, he is able to say to one, &#8216;go,&#8217; to another, &#8216;come,&#8217; and to a third, &#8216;do this,&#8217; in the calm certainty that all will be done as he says, because he holds his position for this very purpose\u2013\u2013to secure that such and such things shall be accomplished. He himself is a servant with definite tasks, though they are the tasks of authority. This, too, is the position that our Lord assumes; He says: &#8220;I came not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me.&#8221; That is His commission and the standing order of His life, and for this reason He spake as one having authority, knowing Himself to be commissioned and supported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Behaviour of Autocracy<\/strong>. \u2013Authority is not uneasy; captious, harsh and indulgent by turns. This is the action of autocracy, which is self-sustained as it is self-derived, and is impatient and resentful, on the watch for transgressions, and swift to take offence. Autocracy has ever a drastic penal code, whether in the kingdom, the school, or the family. It has, too, many commandments. &#8216;Thou shalt&#8217; and &#8216;thou shalt not,&#8217; are entanglements about the would-be awful majesty of the autocrat. The tendency to assume self-derived power is common to us all, even the meekest of us, and calls for special watchfulness; the more so, because it shows itself fully as often in remitting duties and in granting indulgences as in inflicting punishments. 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