S4E60: The Building Blocks of Story with Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey
Commonplace Tales: Tales of Imagination––Stories, again, of the Christmas holidays, of George and Lucy, of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so…
S4E59: A Reasoned Patriotism with Dawn Duran
The honor due to our country…is not to be confounded with the ignorant and impertinent attitude of the Englishman or the Chinese who believes that to be born an Englishman or a Chinese puts him on a higher level than…
S4E56: Prioritizing Principles Over Practices with Alanna Hendon
The parent who sees his way––that is, the exact force of method––to educate his child, will make use of every circumstance of the child’s life almost without intention on his own part, so easy and spontaneous is a method of…
S3E46: Q&A No. 5 with Cindy and Dawn
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.…
S3E45: Teaching Math the Charlotte Mason Way with Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges
Never are the operations of Reason more delightful and more perfect than in mathematics. Here men do not begin to reason with a notion which causes them to lean to this side or to that. By degrees, absolute truth unfolds…
S2E28: Q&A Number 4 with Cindy and Dawn
What if parents and teachers in their zeal misread the schedule of their duties, magnified their office unduly and encroached upon the personality of children? It is not an environment that these want, a set of artificial relations carefully, constructed,…
S2E27: The Value of Teaching Plutarch with Tom Cox
…the one achievement possible and necessary for every man is character; and character is as finely wrought metal beaten into shape and beauty by the repeated and accustomed action of will. We who teach should make it clear to ourselves…
S2E21: Charlotte Mason and Special Education with Tammy Glaser
Show Summary: Today’s guest is Tammy Glaser, mother of 2 adult children, one with special needs, as well as a founder of a Charlotte Mason private school How Tammy discovered Charlotte Mason and decided it would work well for her…
S1E18: Q&A No. 2, On Classical Education with Cindy and Karen
“Sound principles that are old may easily be laid on the shelf and forgotten, unless in each successive generation a few industrious people can be found who will take the trouble to draw them forth from the storehouse.” Thomas Godolphin…
S1E17: Charlotte Mason Methods in a School Setting with Adrienne Freas
And what a barren and dry land should we dwell in if our spirits were narrowed to the limits of that which we can comprehend! Where we err is in supposing that mystery is confined to our religion, that everything…
