Interviews
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:…
S4E48: Math in the Charlotte Mason Model with Richele Baburina
Miss Mason taught us that ‘Education is the science of relations’ and that a child should feel from the very beginning that his relations with number are opening up to him yet another realm of beautiful and wonderful things for…
S3E47: Christmas Memories with Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge
Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us,And we beheld His glory, as, of God,The only-begotten Son: we who believedKnew glory when we saw it, by the signs—Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings—But Grace, the touch of…
S3E45: Teaching Math the Charlotte Mason Way with Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges
Never are the operations of Reason more delightful and more perfect than in mathematics. Here men do not begin to reason with a notion which causes them to lean to this side or to that. By degrees, absolute truth unfolds…
S3E43: Homeschooling Only Children with Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show…
