S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra
January 26, 2023Though 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: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Home Education by Charlotte Mason The Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading by Jennie Wise and Sara Buffington The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper Medea by…
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…
S3E46: Q&A No. 5 with Cindy and Dawn
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.…
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…
S2E44: Reprise of A “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration
And, Mary, seeking meekly for direction, asked ‘how shall this be after the wont of men?’ and she was shewn how, by the immediate power of God Most High, the Child should be born, holy, the Son of God; and…
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…
S3E42: Simply Charlotte Mason with Sonya Shafer
Children learn to grow. Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Sonya Shafer is a veteran homeschool mom of 4 daughters as well as a popular author and speaker and co-founder of Simply Charlotte Mason How Sonya first…
S3E41: Homeschooling in Community with Yolanda Mason
If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would only have courage to let everything go when…
S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”
Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot on which our curriculum turns. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 273 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline…
S3E39: Swedish Drill with Dawn Duran
I will only add, that to give the child pleasure in light and easy motion–the sort of delight in the management of his own body that a good rider finds in managing his horse–dancing, drill, calisthenics, some sort of judicious…
