S9E119: Q&A No. 10, Back to School Conference 2025
With this thought of a child to begin with, we shall perceive that whatever is stale and flat and dull to us must needs be stale and flat and dull to him, and also that there is no subject which…
S9E118: A Dad’s Role in the Homeschool and Living Book Press with Anthony Coafield
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…
S9E117: Teaching Foreign Language the Charlotte Mason Way with Sue Lee
French should be acquired as English is, not as a grammar, but as a living speech. To train the ear to distinguish and the lips to produce the French vocables is a valuable part of the education of the senses,…
S9E116: Remix of 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, from Philosophy of Education…
S9E115: Remix of 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,…
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…
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…
