S9E115: Remix of Charlotte Mason Through High School with Jami Marstall
July 3, 2025We as teachers depreciate ourselves and our office; we do not realize that in the nature of things the teacher has a prophetic power of appeal and inspiration, that his part is not the weariful task of spoon-feeding with pap-meat, but the delightful commerce of equal minds where his is the part of guide, philosopher and friend. The friction of wills which makes school work harassing ceases to a surprising degree when we deal with the children, mind to mind, through the medium of knowledge. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6 Show Summary: To sign up for the 2025…
S8E114: Bible Lessons for Children with Lauren Fee
The method of such lessons is very simple. Read aloud to the children a few verses covering, if possible, an episode. Read reverently, carefully, and with just expression. Then require the children to narrate what they have listened to as…
S8E113: Reading Dante’s “Divine Comedy” with Dr. Jason Baxter
[T]he Commedia [is] the epic poem of Christianity, the fountain of art, poetry and thought in every Christian land. Strike but below the surface, reach but beyond the difficulties which crop up in every canto, read on and let nothing…
S8E112: Morning Time for Moms, Part 7, with Anne White
If the cosmos is constructed the way the ancient church taught, then heaven and earth interpenetrate each other, participate in each other’s life. The sacred is not inserted from outside, like an injection from the wells of paradise; it is…
S8E111: Charlotte Mason in the Early Years with Jeannette Tullis
But give the child work that nature intended for him and the quantity he can get through with ease is practically unlimited. Whoever saw a child tired of seeing, of examining, in his own way, unfamiliar things? This is the…
S8E110: Charlotte Mason Hybrid Schools with Anna Fischer
Academic success and knowledge are not the same thing, and many excellent schools fail to give their pupils delight in the latter for its own sake or to bring them in touch with the sort of knowledge that influences character…
S8E109: Speech and Debate from a Charlotte Mason Perspective with Hailey and Vivien White
Who can take the measure of a child? The Genie of the Arabian tale is nothing to him. He, too, may be let out of his bottle and fill the world. But woe to us if we keep him corked…
S8E108: Remix of Spring Nature Study with Jeannette
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…
S8E107: Homeschooling as a Military Family with Zach and Andrea Vaughn
There is no escape for us, no short cut; art is long, especially the art of living. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, p. 315 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins For the Children’s…
S8E106: Using Math Journals and Games with Denise Gaskins
School and society teach us to view mathematics as a race. You run as fast as you can from one topic to the next. But let me give you a new vision of mathematics. I want you to think of…
S8E105: Personal Bible Study with Stephanie Russell
I fear I am exceeding the space allowed to me so will offer just one other little word of counsel–study… Every hour of definite study enriches your mind and increases your power, so that, the more you study in your…
