S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”
September 29, 2022Next 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 Advisory Before getting to main the subject matter, Donna-Jean gives homeschooling moms a little encouragement and exhortation How This Country of Ours was chosen as a history spine for AmblesideOnline Why Donna-Jean decided to expand and update the book How Donna-Jean annotated, expanded and updated This Country of Ours What she hopes this new version accomplishes Listen Now: Books and…
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…
S3E38: A Tribute to Wendi Capehart
Our aim in education is to give a full life…. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests…. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all…
S2E37: Overcoming Fear in Homeschooling with Jennifer Pepito
It is only in so far as Knowledge is dear to us and delights us for herself that she yields us lifelong joy and contentment. He who delights in her, not for the sake of showing off, and not for…
S2E36: Adapting Charlotte Mason Methods for the Dyslexic Student with Marcela Best
God the Holy Spirit is himself, personally, the imparter of knowledge, the instructor of youth, the inspirer of genius…. every fruitful idea, every original conception whether in Euclid or grammar or music was a direct inspiration from the Holy Spirit.…
S2E35: Large Family Life and Charlotte Mason with Heather Tully
The mother’s work is unlike any other in the whole world, it entails the constant drawing out of the very depths of her nature, and keeps it on the stretch often for hours together. It is from morning till night,…
S2E34: Exams in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Celeste Cruz
Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is…
S2E33: The Alveary Curriculum with Stephanie Russell
It is the duty of the nation to maintain relations of brotherly kindness with other nations; therefore it is the duty of every family, as an integral part of the nation, to be able to hold brotherly speech with the…
S2E32: A Gentle Feast Curriculum with Brittney McGann
Is the distinction between being free to choose the right at one’s own option, and not free to do the wrong, too subtle to be grasped, too elusive to be practical? It may be so, but it is precisely the…
S2E31: The Charlotte Mason Educational Center with Camille Malucci
Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is…
S2E30: The AmblesideOnline Curriculum with Emily Tallent
The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again, to be diverted or even repressed. His character––the efflorescence of the man wherein the fruit of…
