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:…
S3E43: Homeschooling Only Children with Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show…
S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”
Next 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…
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…
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.…
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…
S2E23: Transitioning to a Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Dawn Garrett
Show Summary: Today’s guest is Dawn Garrett, homeschooling mother of 3, and Community Manager at PamBarnhill.com How Dawn came to hear about Charlotte Mason after being a neo-Classical home educator What did your transition look like when you started using…
S2E22: Charlotte Mason Through High School with Jami Marstall
We 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,…
S2E20: Cross-Cultural Education and Folk Songs with Wendi Capehart
It is by the aid of imagination that a child comes to love people who do not belong to his own country, and as he learns the history of their great deeds and noble efforts, he is eager to learn…
S2E19: “However Imperfectly” with Donna-Jean Breckenridge
But, once more, “This kind cometh forth only by prayer.” Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How did Donna-Jean first hear about Charlotte…
