S9E124: The AmblesideOnline Advisory on the Work of the Mother
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Elliot, The Four Quartets
Show Summary:
- This week on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn are joined by the members of the AmblesideOnline Advisory, which includes Donna-Jean Breckenridge, Anne White, Karen Glass, and Leslie Laurio
- How does the education offered through AmblesideOnline apply to mothers and fathers, too, not only to the children?
- Why is it so important for moms to take the time to read Charlotte Mason’s volumes and learn her method for themselves?
- What encouragement would you offer to help the mom do so?
- Can you speak to this desire, for homeschool material to be “open and go,” specifically with respect to AO?
- What can you tell us about the AO 25th anniversary celebration?
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Books and Links Mentioned:
Home Education by Charlotte Mason
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Six Voices, One Story by the AmblesideOnline Advisory
Formation of Character by Charlotte Mason
Donna-Jean’s article on the Archipelago blog: Enough
The Orphean Passages by Walter Wangerin
The Stones Cry Out by David Hicks
Templeton: An Anecdotal Memoir by Charles Templeton
My Beloved by Jan Karon
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Mere Motherhood Facebook Group
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Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking – the strain would be too great – but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.
Charlotte Mason, School Education
