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…
S8E104: Misrepresentations of a Charlotte Mason Education with Karen Glass
We endeavour that all our teaching and treatment of children shall be on the lines of nature, their nature and ours, for we do not recognise what is called ‘Child-nature.’ We believe that children are human beings at their best…
S8E103: Composition the Charlotte Mason Way with Karen Glass
Forms V and VI: In these Forms some definite teaching in the art of composition is advisable,but not too much. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, p. 193 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books Mentioned: Much May Be Done with…
S8E102: Morning Time for Moms, Part 6, with Megan Graham
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading…
S8E101: Q&A No. 9 with Cindy and Dawn
The amount of matter written is no measure of the mental processes involved. Elsie Kitching, “Concerning Repeated Narration“, Parents’ Review, Volume 39 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter Children of the…
S7E100: Why Literature Still Matters with Dr. Jason Baxter
And this is exactly what I had accidentally inflicted on myself in Sardinia. The distance between me and the landscape had been erased. I had been reduced to an experience of pure elemental conditions, and I loved it, because I…
