S9E122: Wildwood Learning Center with Blossom Barden
October 16, 2025
A small English boy of nine living in Japan, remarked, “Isn’t it fun, Mother, learning all these things? Everything seems to fit into something else. The boy had not found out the whole secret; everything fitted into something within himself.
Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, p. 156-157
Show Summary:
This week on the New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with Blossom Barden, veteran homeschool mom and founder of and online course coordinator for Wildwood Learning Center
How Blossom first learned about Charlotte Mason
Why and how Blossom started her first homeschool co-op
How the Wildwood Learning Center operates
What some of the classes at Wildwood look like in format
Examples of the connections made through Wildwood
How the teachers at Wildwood stay aligned in their philosophy and methods
The question is not,—how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education—but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?
