S8E110: Charlotte Mason Hybrid Schools with Anna Fischer
Academic success and knowledge are not the same thing, and many excellent schools fail to give their pupils delight in the latter for its own sake or to bring them in touch with the sort of knowledge that influences character and conduct. The slow, imperceptible, sinking in of high ideals is the gain that a good school should yield its pupils.
Charlotte Mason, from Philosophy of Education, p. 266
Show Summary:
- On this week’s episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn share a conversation with Anna Fischer about the homeschool hybrid school, Canyon Creek Christian Academy in Tennessee
- How Anna first heard about Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy
- What is a hybrid school?
- How Anna got involved with CCCA and later became co-director
- What it is like to run the hybrid school
- How the school leadership seeks educate and support parents
- What are the benefits for the students and any potential drawbacks of this hybrid model?
- What does a typical day at the school look like?
- How does the school find teachers who are on board with the Charlotte Mason philosophy?
- How assessments work at CCCA
- What Anna would tell people considering starting a hybrid program like this
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Books and Links Mentioned:
Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
Know and Tell: The Art of Narration by Karen Glass
In Vital Harmony by Karen Glass
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“Children brought up largely on books compare favourably with those educated on a few books and many lectures; they have generous enthusiasms, keen sympathies, a wide outlook and sound judgment, because they are treated from the first as beings of ‘large discourse looking before and after.’ They are persons of leisure too, with time for hobbies, because their work is easily done in the hours of morning school.”
Charlotte Mason, from Philosophy of Education, p. 305
