S11E146: Homeschooling Girls of Character with Sarah Stonestreet
Their education isn’t a benefit we bestow on them. It’s a feast for them to take and enjoy. Charlotte Mason, from The Modern Paraphrase of Philosophy of Education, p. 71 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and Links Mentioned: For more…
S11E145: Preparing Boys for Manhood with Heather Martin
Qualities proper to a Ruler.––Nobody understood this better than Queen Elizabeth, who contrived to make a curious division of her personality and be, at the same time, a model ruler and, as a woman, full of the weaknesses of her…
S11E144: Charlotte Mason’s Living Math with Denise Gaskins
The intellectual life, like every manner of spiritual life, has but one food whereby it lives and grows––the sustenance of living ideas. It is not possible to repeat this too often or too emphatically, for perhaps we err more in…
S10E139: Charlotte Mason’s Tools for History Study with Celeste Cruz
This, then, is the purpose of narration—a purpose which we would do well to keep constantly before us. There should be no misconception. It is not a teacher’s device designed to find out if the child has completed a given…
S10E138: Amy Snell on Studying History with Charlotte Mason
The Parents’ Union School curriculum aims at giving the child ideas which will grow into principles of conduct, ideas of eternal truths. Her books are largely chosen for the purpose of training her capacity to differentiate and to see the…
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…
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…
S9E123: A Day in the Life with Little Ones with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp
It would be well if we all persons in authority, parents and all who act for parents, could make up our minds that there is no sort of knowledge to be got in these early years so valuable to children…
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…
