Interviews
S11E153: Reading Instruction in the Mason Method with Amy Tuttle
Our aim in Education is to give a Full Life.––We begin to see what we want. Children make large demands upon us. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Thou hast set my feet in…
S11E152: “If Only We Could See” – Lilias Trotter with Jennifer Trafton
You can never tell to what untold glories one little humble path may lead if you follow farenough. Lilias Trotter Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: If Only We Could See by Jennifer Trafton Henry and the Chalk…
S11E151: Morning Time for Moms (and Dads!) with Erin and Kimbell Kornu, Pt. 10
Actions do not speak louder than words to a young heart; he must feel it in your touch, see it in your eye, hear it in your tones, or you will never convince child or boy that you love him,…
S11E150: Homeschooling with Littles with Cassie Detwiler
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it spent…
S11E148: Time Management in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Erin Daly
There are appointed ways, not always the old paths, but new ones, opened up step by step as we go. The labour of the mother who sets herself to understand her work is not increased, but infinitely lightened; … A…
S11E147: Pennyworth Publishing with Grace Russo
Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, at other times – a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their storybooks. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 153…
S11E146: Homeschooling Girls of Character with Sarah Stonestreet
Their education isn’t a benefit we bestow on them. It’s a feast for them to take and enjoy. Charlotte Mason, from The Modern Paraphrase of Philosophy of Education, p. 71 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: For more…
S11E145: Preparing Boys for Manhood with Heather Martin
Qualities proper to a Ruler.––Nobody understood this better than Queen Elizabeth, who contrived to make a curious division of her personality and be, at the same time, a model ruler and, as a woman, full of the weaknesses of her…
S11E144: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math with Denise Gaskins
The intellectual life, like every manner of spiritual life, has but one food whereby it lives and grows––the sustenance of living ideas. It is not possible to repeat this too often or too emphatically, for perhaps we err more in…
S10E143: AmblesideOnline Groups with Naomi Goegan and Cheri Hall
Are we not justified in concluding that singular effects must have commensurate causes, and that we have chanced to light on unknown tracts in the region of educational thought. At any rate that GOLDEN RULE of which Comenius was in…
