S6E75: A Sacred Sacrifice with Hannah Paris and Amy Edwards
Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal…
S6E74: The Lives of Charlotte Mason Moms and Military Wives
As a matter of fact, we do not realise children, we under-estimate them; in the divine words, we “despise” them, with the best intentions in the world, because we confound the immaturity of their frames, and their absolute ignorance as…
S6E73: Music and Group Singing with Bethany Stuard
Few things could be more disastrous (as, alas, few are more imminent) than a sudden break with the traditions of the past; wherefore, let us gently knit the bonds that bind us to the generation all too rapidly dying out.…
S5E72: “Six Voices, One Story” with Donna-Jean Breckenridge
It is not the friends of our election who have exclusive claims upon us; the friends brought to us here and there by the circumstances of life all claim our loyalty, and from these we get…kindness for kindness, service for…
S5E71: Reprise of “Christmas Memories with Lynn and Donna-Jean”, Ep. 47
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…
S5E70: A Casual Chat with Cindy and Dawn
Education is a life. That life is sustained on ideas. Ideas are of spiritual origin, and God has made us so that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another, whether by word of mouth, written page,…
S5E69: A Question of Culture with Erin Kunkle
Mentally he must be developed so that as he grows older he may have the capacity to grasp the true meaning of social and political questions of the day. His mind should be so trained that he will be able…
S5E68: The Beauty of Mathematics with Melissa Bair
We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of Mathematics; that, as Ruskin points out, two and two make four and cannot conceivably make five, is an inevitable law. It is a great thing to be…
S5E67: Science in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Jeanne Webb
Again, we have made a rather strange discovery, that the mind refuses to know anything except what reaches it in more or less literary form. Persons can ‘get up’ the driest of pulverised text-books and enough mathematics for some public examination;…
S5E66: Q&A No. 7, On the Building Blocks of Story
“There can be no great art without great fable. Great art can only exist where great men brood intensely on something upon which all men brood a little. Without a popular body of fable there can be no unselfish art…
