Knowledge is not instruction, information, scholarship, a well-stored memory. It is passed, like the light of a torch, from mind to mind, and the flame can be kindled at original minds only. Thought, we know, breeds thought; it is as vital thought touches our minds that our ideas are vitalized, and out of our ideas comes our conduct of life.
Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Towards a Philosophy of Education
Show Summary:
On this episode of The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn talk with the women behind the Charlotte Mason New England community–Sarah Beals, Megan Massaro, and Rebekah Anglea
How and why did you get this started in the first place?
What roles do each of you play?
What have some of the past CMNE events looked like?
What are some of the challenges for home school families in New England?
How have you gotten the word out about CMNE?
What are some benefits of having a multi-generational community?
Only as he has been and is nourished upon books is a man able to “live his life”. . . . his labour goes the better “because his secret soul a holy strain repeats.”
Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Towards a Philosophy of Education