S4E56: Prioritizing Principles Over Practices with Alanna Hendon
The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of…
S4E55: Q & A No. 6 with Cindy and Dawn
…of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Volume 3…
S4E54: Lent, Easter, and “Ourselves” with Anne White
…to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate; so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 1 Show Summary: Listen Now:…
S4E53: High School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan
The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he hasfinished his education––but how much does he care? and about howmany orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room inwhich he finds his feet…
S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt
…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our youngpeople, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is dueto the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible andpleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating,…
S4E51: Homeschooling Boys the Charlotte Mason Way with Alanna Hendon
Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: AmblesideOnline…
S4E50: Public School Teacher to Charlotte Mason Homeschooler with Timilyn Downey
Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any…
S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra
Though 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:…
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…
