S8E105: Personal Bible Study with Stephanie Russell
I fear I am exceeding the space allowed to me so will offer just one other little word of counsel–study… Every hour of definite study enriches your mind and increases your power, so that, the more you study in your…
S8E104: Misrepresentations of a Charlotte Mason Education with Karen Glass
We endeavour that all our teaching and treatment of children shall be on the lines of nature, their nature and ours, for we do not recognise what is called ‘Child-nature.’ We believe that children are human beings at their best…
S8E103: Composition the Charlotte Mason Way with Karen Glass
Forms V and VI: In these Forms some definite teaching in the art of composition is advisable,but not too much. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, p. 193 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books Mentioned: Much May Be Done with…
S8E102: Morning Time for Moms, Part 6, with Megan Graham
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading…
S8E101: Q&A No. 9 with Cindy and Dawn
The amount of matter written is no measure of the mental processes involved. Elsie Kitching, “Concerning Repeated Narration“, Parents’ Review, Volume 39 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter Children of the…
S7E100: Why Literature Still Matters with Dr. Jason Baxter
And this is exactly what I had accidentally inflicted on myself in Sardinia. The distance between me and the landscape had been erased. I had been reduced to an experience of pure elemental conditions, and I loved it, because I…
S7E99: 25 Books of Christmas with Jeannette Tulis
Now imagination does not descend, full grown, to take possession of an empty house; like every other power of the mind, it is the merest germ of a power to begin with, and grows by what it gets; and childhood,…
S7E98: Advent Art Study and Devotions with Rebecca Zipp
The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before. It is not possible to keep it from coming, because it will. That’s just how Advent works. What is possible…
S7E97: AmblesideOnline with Special Needs Students with Jen Sova
But our fault, our exceeding great fault, is that we keep our own minds and the minds of our children shamefully underfed. The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of…
S7E96: Morning Time for Moms Part 5 with Elaine Shutt
I know you may bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. What I complain of is that we do not bring our horse to the water. We give him miserable little text-books, mere compendiums of…
