S7E90: Remix Episode – Have a Happier Homeschool with Lynn Bruce (S1E5)
The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened, or, again, to be diverted or even repressed. His character––the efflorescence of the man wherein the fruit of…
S7E89: Q&A No. 8, LIVE with Cindy and Dawn
It is not for nothing that the old painters, however diverse their ideas in other matters, all fixed upon one quality as proper to the pattern Mother. The Madonna, no matter out of whose canvas she looks at you, is…
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…
S6E80: Spring Nature Study with Jeannette Tulis
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…
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…
S6E76: “Beyond Mere Motherhood” with Cindy and Dawn
No one knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of a man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education… Charlotte Mason, Toward a Philosophy of Education, p. 26 Show Summary: Listen Now: Books and…
S6E73: Music and Group Singing with Bethany Stuard
Few things could be more disastrous (as, alas, few are more imminent) than a sudden break with the traditions of the past; wherefore, let us gently knit the bonds that bind us to the generation all too rapidly dying out.…
S5E68: The Beauty of Mathematics with Melissa Bair
We take strong ground when we appeal to the beauty and truth of Mathematics; that, as Ruskin points out, two and two make four and cannot conceivably make five, is an inevitable law. It is a great thing to be…
S5E67: Science in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Jeanne Webb
Again, we have made a rather strange discovery, that the mind refuses to know anything except what reaches it in more or less literary form. Persons can ‘get up’ the driest of pulverised text-books and enough mathematics for some public examination;…
