S10E135: The Singing Family with Nate and Jess Roberts
Perhaps we do not attach enough importance to the habit of praise in our children’s devotion. Praise and thanksgiving come freely from the young heart; gladness is natural and holy, and music is a delight. The singing of hymns at…
S10E134: Morning Time for Moms, Pt. 9, with Emily Raible
Of course it is only now and then that a notion catches the small boy, but when it does catch, it works wonders, and does more for his education than years of grind. Charlotte Mason, from School Education, p. 162-163…
S10E133: Presidential Libraries and Biographies with Erin Kunkle
To give the child some idea of what has gone on in the world before he arrived;To take him out of his little self-centered, shut-in life, which looms so large because it is so close to his eyes;To extend his…
S10E132: Hosting a Handicraft Fair with Angel Revie
What is worth beginning is worth finishing, and what is worth doing is worth doing well. Do not let yourself begin to make a dozen things, all of them tumbling about unfinished in your box. Of course there are fifty…
S10E129: Preparing Students for Life Beyond High School with Lani Siciliano
Here are we on the verge of that new life for our country which we all purpose, faced with infinite possibilities on either hand,––the vast range of knowledge and the vast educability of mind. Another certainty presents itself, that we…
S9E128: Life-long Learning Through Narration with Sheila Carroll
Narrating is an art, like poetry-making or painting, because it is there, in every child’s mind, waiting to be discovered, and is not the result of any process of disciplinary education. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, p. 232-233 Show Summary: Listen…
S9E127: The Charlotte Mason New England Community
Knowledge is not instruction, information, scholarship, a well-stored memory. It is passed, like the light of a torch, from mind to mind, and the flame can be kindled at original minds only. Thought, we know, breeds thought; it is as…
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S9E126: Handel’s Messiah with Querida Thompson
And ever against eating cares,Lap me in soft Lydian airs,Married to immortal verse,Such as the meeting soul may pierce,In notes with many a winding boutOf linked sweetness long drawn outWith wanton heed and giddy cunning,The melting voice through mazes running,Untwisting…
S9E125: Part of the Great Story with Dr. Wilfred McClay
Being a land of hope may also mean, at times, being a land of disappointment. The history of the United States contains both. It is hard to have one without the other. Dr. Wilfred McClay, from Land of Hope Show…
S9E124: The AmblesideOnline Advisory on the Work of the Mother
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T. S. Elliot, The Four Quartets Show Summary: Listen Now: From Darkness…
