SS #40: Moms: Learn and Grow! (Part II — with Cindy Rollins!)
In this special bonus summer season episode, the Scholé Sisters meet up with Cindy Rollins for a special, 2-part podcast. Catch the first part over on The Mason Jar podcast, and then come back here for Part II. In Part I, we discussed Charlotte Mason’s views on self-education and how that applies to moms. In Part II, we take it all a step further with discussion of why reading is important, where hobbies fit in, and MORE!
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Show Notes:
- Note for The Mason Jar Episode (Moms: Learn and Grow! (Part I))
- Sign up for the Learning Well Retreat here!!
- Charlotte Mason quote:
- [Knowledge] is a state out of which persons may pass and into which they may return, but never a store upon which they may draw… (Vol. 6, p. 321)
- The “Paideia book” to which Mystie and Brandy refer is explained here.
- Charlotte Mason quote:
- There is a saying of King Alfred’s that I like to apply to our School,—‘I have found a door,’ he says. That is just what I hope your School is to you — a door opening into a great palace of art and knowledge in which there are many chambers all opening into gardens or field paths, forest or hills. One chamber, entered through a beautiful Gothic archway, is labelled Bible Knowledge, and there the Scholar finds goodness as well as knowledge, as indeed he does in many others of the fair chambers. You see that doorway with much curious lettering? History is within, and that is, I think, an especially delightful chamber. But it would take too long to investigate all these pleasant places and indeed you could label a good many of the doorways from the headings in your term’s
programme. (In Memoriam, p. 117)
- There is a saying of King Alfred’s that I like to apply to our School,—‘I have found a door,’ he says. That is just what I hope your School is to you — a door opening into a great palace of art and knowledge in which there are many chambers all opening into gardens or field paths, forest or hills. One chamber, entered through a beautiful Gothic archway, is labelled Bible Knowledge, and there the Scholar finds goodness as well as knowledge, as indeed he does in many others of the fair chambers. You see that doorway with much curious lettering? History is within, and that is, I think, an especially delightful chamber. But it would take too long to investigate all these pleasant places and indeed you could label a good many of the doorways from the headings in your term’s
- PR Article: Mother Culture by A.
- Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles of Education
Towards a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
- The Basis of National Strength by Charlotte Mason
- PR article: The Influence and Teaching of the Educated Mother by Mrs. Alfred Booth
- AmblesideOnline Year 4
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Lonesome Gods by Louis L’Amour
Charlotte Mason Volume 1
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macauley
- Who was John Holt?
The Liberal Arts Tradition by Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain
Leisure: the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Notes for Scholé Sisters Episode (Moms: Learn and Grow! (Part II))
- AmblesideOnline Year 0
- SS EP 25: To Pre-read or Not to Pre-Read
- The Mason Jar #12: Katie Hudgins
Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall
History of English Literature for Boys and Girls by H.E. Marshall
This Country of Ours by H.E. Marshall
- Pam’s Your Morning Basket Podcast
The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
- Brandy’s four categories of books
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Hello, I was wondering if the is the episode where one of you ladies mentioned a baseball book that inspired your son? Can you tell me what book it was? Thank you!
Hey there! I think Mystie referred in passing to a book about early American pioneers like Lewis & Clark, etc, that she was reading with her kids that inspired her to learn. Was this the book by Franklin Folsom, by chance?
So I’ve been trying to hunt this down, and none of us remember saying that! Are you sure it was Lewis & Clark? I’m so sorry! 🙁
Brandy, did you mean to say that if a mom reads more than 30 minutes a day, her affections are disordered?
No! Did I say that? If so, I misspoke. I just think putting the time limit helps us make sure our other duties are attended to, but 30 minutes is actually an arbitrary number! 🙂