Podcast
S6E83: A Heart to Heart with the AmblesideOnline Advisory
The person who can live upon his own intellectual resources and never know a dull hour (though anxious and sad hours will come) is indeed enviable in these days of intellectual inanition, when we depend upon spectacular entertainments pour passer le…
S6E82: Morning Time for Moms (and Dads!), Part 2, with Summer and Mike Smith
Every plant bears fruit, ‘fruit and seed after his kind.’ All this is stale knowledge to older people, but one of the secrets of the educator is to present nothing as stale knowledge, but to put himself in the position…
S6E81: “Joy in the Morning” Summer Discipleship
If mankind had not been organized into families, it would never have had the organic power to be organized into commonwealths. Human culture is handed down in the customs of countless households. It is the only way in which human…
S6E80: Spring Nature Study with Jeannette Tulis
They notice for themselves, and the teacher gives a name and other information as it is asked for… In this way they lay up that store of “common information”… and what is more important, they learn to know and delight…
S6E79: “A Bit of the World’s Work” with Anne White
Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies is much used in the P.U.S., as I know of no other attempt to present such a ground plan of human nature as should enable the young student to know where he is in his efforts…
S6E78: Morning Time for Moms, Part 1, with Jami Marstall
The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of that which under the actions of the mind itself becomes knowledge. Nothing can stale its infinite variety; the heavens and the earth,…
S6E77: Seeing the Big Picture with Heather Martin
Three Questions for the Mother…She must ask herself Why must the children learn at all? What should they learn? And, Howshould they learn it? If she takes the trouble to find a definite andthoughtful answer to each of these three…
S6E76: “Beyond Mere Motherhood” with Cindy and Dawn
No one knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education… Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 26 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and…
S6E75: A Sacred Sacrifice with Hannah Paris and Amy Edwards
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal…
S6E74: The Lives of Charlotte Mason Moms and Military Wives
As a matter of fact, we do not realise children, we under-estimate them; in the divine words, we “despise” them, with the best intentions in the world, because we confound the immaturity of their frames, and their absolute ignorance as…
