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;…
S5E64: A Charlotte Mason Sunday School with Emily Raible and Tracy Fast
All our teaching of children should be given reverently, with the humble sense that we are invited in this matter to co-operate with the Holy Spirit; but it should be given dutifully and diligently. Charlotte Mason, Vol. 2, Parents and…
S5E63: Singing in the Homeschool with Heather Bunting
In teaching music, again, let him once perceive the beautiful laws of harmony, the personality, so to speak, of Music, looking out upon him from among the queer little black notes… Charlotte Mason, Vol. 2, Parents and Children, p. 278-279…
S4E57: The Mater Amabilis Curriculum with Ella Rice
But the educator has to deal with a self-acting, self-developing being, and his business is to guide, and assist in, the production of the latent good in that being, the dissipation of the latent evil, the preparation of the child…
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…
S4E55: Q & A No. 6 with Cindy and Dawn
…of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live. Charlotte Mason, School Education, Volume 3…
S4E53: High School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan
The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he hasfinished his education––but how much does he care? and about howmany orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room inwhich he finds his feet…
S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt
…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our youngpeople, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is dueto the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible andpleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating,…
S4E48: Math in the Charlotte Mason Model with Richele Baburina
Miss Mason taught us that ‘Education is the science of relations’ and that a child should feel from the very beginning that his relations with number are opening up to him yet another realm of beautiful and wonderful things for…
