S10E129: Preparing Students for Life Beyond High School with Lani Siciliano
Here are we on the verge of that new life for our country which we all purpose, faced with infinite possibilities on either hand,––the vast range of knowledge and the vast educability of mind. Another certainty presents itself, that we have not time for short cuts: the training of muscle and sense, however necessary, does not nourish mind; and, on the other hand, the verbiage of a lecturer is not assimilated. There is no education but self-education and only as the young student works with his own mind is anything effected.
Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 289
Show Summary:
- On the first episode of Season 10 of The New Mason Jar, we bring you a conversation Cindy and Dawn had with Lani Siciliano, veteran homeschool mom and a member of the AmblesideOnline Auxiliary
- How Lani first learned about homeschooling and Charlotte Mason
- What is the difference between the AO Advisory and the Auxiliary?
- How did you prepare transcripts for your students to get into the military and college?
- Did Lani feel like she had to change a lot of things when she started homeschooling high school?
- How the practice of narration prepared Lani’s students for higher education
- Did Lani encounter any hiccups along the way or have any regrets?
- How Lani applies a Charlotte Mason education to her own life as she has graduated most of her children
- A few more words of wisdom from moms farther down the road
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We can give to the people the thought of the best minds and we can secure on their part the conscious intellectual effort, the act of knowing, which bears fruit in capability, character, and conduct.
Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, p. 298
