S7E88: Starting a Charlotte Mason Co-op with Jess Smith
One thesis, which is, perhaps, new, that Education is the Science of Relations, appears to me to solve the question of curricula, as showing that the object of education is to put a child in living touch as much as may…
S7E87: Co-ops and Charlotte Mason with April and Anna
No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it: let us havecourage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at theamount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a mealand…
S6E86: Morning Time with the Aging with Tiffany Mai
Shall every man have all the blissThat is, by right of fitness, his?Is Vision for all sons of men?Shall peoples walk with God again? But, oh, the head is sick, the heartToo faint to choose the righteous part!Shall the Messiah…
S6E85: Morning Time for Moms, Part 4, with Christina Baehr
That each thing is a wordRequiring us to speak it;From the ant to the quasar,From clouds to ocean floor- The meaning not ours, but foundIn the mind deeply submissiveTo the grammar of existence,The syntax of the real; So that alien…
S6E84: Morning Time for Moms Part 3 with Elissa Kroeger
If we know one person who grows pale at a lofty thought, whose tears come at the telling of a heroic action, let us learn, from that, that these are thoughts and actions that have the power to move us…
S6E83: A Heart to Heart with the AmblesideOnline Advisory
The person who can live upon his own intellectual resources and never know a dull hour (though anxious and sad hours will come) is indeed enviable in these days of intellectual inanition, when we depend upon spectacular entertainments pour passer le…
S6E82: Morning Time for Moms (and Dads!), Part 2, with Summer and Mike Smith
Every plant bears fruit, ‘fruit and seed after his kind.’ All this is stale knowledge to older people, but one of the secrets of the educator is to present nothing as stale knowledge, but to put himself in the position…
S6E79: “A Bit of the World’s Work” with Anne White
Ourselves, our Souls and Bodies is much used in the P.U.S., as I know of no other attempt to present such a ground plan of human nature as should enable the young student to know where he is in his efforts…
S6E78: Morning Time for Moms, Part 1, with Jami Marstall
The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of that which under the actions of the mind itself becomes knowledge. Nothing can stale its infinite variety; the heavens and the earth,…
S6E77: Seeing the Big Picture with Heather Martin
Three Questions for the Mother…She must ask herself Why must the children learn at all? What should they learn? And, Howshould they learn it? If she takes the trouble to find a definite andthoughtful answer to each of these three…