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…
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,…
S8E112: Morning Time for Moms, Part 7, with Anne White
If the cosmos is constructed the way the ancient church taught, then heaven and earth interpenetrate each other, participate in each other’s life. The sacred is not inserted from outside, like an injection from the wells of paradise; it is…
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…
S8E108: Remix of Spring Nature Study with Jeannette
They notice for themselves, and the teacher gives a name and other information as it is asked for… In this way they lay up that store of “common information”… and what is more important, they learn to know and delight…
S8E106: Using Math Journals and Games with Denise Gaskins
School and society teach us to view mathematics as a race. You run as fast as you can from one topic to the next. But let me give you a new vision of mathematics. I want you to think of…
S8E101: Q&A No. 9 with Cindy and Dawn
The amount of matter written is no measure of the mental processes involved. Elsie Kitching, “Concerning Repeated Narration“, Parents’ Review, Volume 39 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: Why Literature Still Matters by Jason Baxter Children of the…
S7E94: Fall Nature Study with Jeannette Tulis
To know a plant by its gesture and habitat, its time and its way of flowering and fruiting; a bird by its flight and song and its times of coming and going; to know when, year after year, you may…
