n a bright July morning in 2008, I was 8.5-months pregnant and very nauseous (always nauseous). We had also just moved, proving that difficult situations can always be made worse. But no matter. Our new house was perfect for us and today was designated the first day of school. I was determined, because I needed a month off post-partum. I gave the girls (aged 18 months and 3 years) something to distract them, and pulled out my then-shiny copy of Aesop's Fables illustrated by Milo Winter.It Continue Reading
(IN 01) Let’s Talk About … Charlotte Mason History (with Karen Glass!)
received a couple questions recently regarding AmblesideOnline, Charlotte Mason, and the teaching of history that made me think of conversations I've had in the past with Karen Glass. I decided to use them as an excuse to have a conversation with her and record it for AfterCast. That's what I'm presenting to you today.Karen is the author of Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition, and also the brain behind Mind to Mind, an abridgment of Charlotte Mason’s sixth volume. Continue Reading
How Education is like Sandpaper
hat if we could put together Charlotte Mason, Socrates, Aristotle, and MBTI as a way of understanding one aspect of education? Wouldn't that be ... totally daring? And also totally fun? That's what we're doing today. It's like a party for your Afterthinking mind!He he.I was rereading a bit of what Charlotte Mason wrote in Formation of Character. It's quite lengthy, so we can only look at part of the section she calls Better-Than-My-Neighbor, but it's brimming with good lessons for Continue Reading
A Classical History of the Principle of Alternation (a Vittorino da Feltre post)
as Vittorino da Feltre the First Charlotte Mason? Well, of course not. It's not like many of his ideas were original. Like all good educational philosophers who are also practitioners, he took the wealth of the past and applied it to his own circumstances. Still, it's a fun question to ask because some of the similarities are so striking. Today, we'll look at another similarity (if you missed it, we discussed atmosphere and discipline last time): Vittorino's use of the principle of Continue Reading