Interviews
S4E59: A Reasoned Patriotism with Dawn Duran
The honor due to our country…is not to be confounded with the ignorant and impertinent attitude of the Englishman or the Chinese who believes that to be born an Englishman or a Chinese puts him on a higher level than…
S4E58: An Orthodox Jewish Approach to Charlotte Mason with Bethany Mandel
Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child,–the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,–the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education Show Summary:…
S4E57: The Mater Amabilis Curriculum with Ella Rice
But the educator has to deal with a self-acting, self-developing being, and his business is to guide, and assist in, the production of the latent good in that being, the dissipation of the latent evil, the preparation of the child…
S4E56: Prioritizing Principles Over Practices with Alanna Hendon
The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of…
S4E54: Lent, Easter, and “Ourselves” with Anne White
…to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate; so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 1 Show Summary: Listen Now:…
S4E53: High School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan
The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he hasfinished his education––but how much does he care? and about howmany orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room inwhich he finds his feet…
S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt
…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our youngpeople, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is dueto the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible andpleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating,…
S4E51: Homeschooling Boys the Charlotte Mason Way with Alanna Hendon
Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: AmblesideOnline…
S4E50: Public School Teacher to Charlotte Mason Homeschooler with Timilyn Downey
Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any…
S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra
Though system is highly useful as an instrument of education, a ‘system of education’ is mischievous, as producing only mechanical action instead of the vital growth and movement of a living being. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary:…
