The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

By Cindy Rollins

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The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins explores the application of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy to the atmosphere, discipline, and life of our homes and schools. We cover Charlotte’s timeless principles as they work themselves out in our real and modern lives. Interviewing seasoned moms who have cherished Charlotte’s works while raising real children in real families, we endeavor to lay a foundation of hope and possibility for our listeners. However imperfectly.

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S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Jo...

01.26.2023

Though system is highly useful as an instrument of education, a ‘system of education’ is mischievous, as producing only mechanical action instead of the vital growth and movement of a living being. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: ...

The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins episodes:

01.26.2023 S4E49: A Charlotte Mason Journey with Anna, Addison, and Ella Hornstra Though system is highly useful as an instrument of education, a ‘system of education’ is mischievous, as producing only mechanical action instead of the vital growth and movement of a living being. Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: ...
01.12.2023 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 ...
12.15.2022 S3E47: Christmas Memories with Lynn Bruce and Donna-Jean Breckenridge Our flesh the Word became, and dwelt with us, And we beheld His glory, as, of God, The only-begotten Son: we who believed Knew glory when we saw it, by the signs— Not of the pomp and majesty of Kings— ...
12.08.2022 S3E46: Q&A No. 5 with Cindy and Dawn Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education. ...
11.24.2022 S3E45: Teaching Math the Charlotte Mason Way with Julie Rylie and Tabitha Wirges Never are the operations of Reason more delightful and more perfect than in mathematics. Here men do not begin to reason with a notion which causes them to lean to this side or to that. By degrees, absolute truth unfolds ...
11.17.2022 S2E44: Reprise of A “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration And, Mary, seeking meekly for direction, asked ‘how shall this be after the wont of men?’ and she was shewn how, by the immediate power of God Most High, the Child should be born, holy, the Son of God; and ...
11.10.2022 S3E43: Homeschooling Only Children with Kay Pelham and Christy Hissong The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show ...
10.27.2022 S3E42: Simply Charlotte Mason with Sonya Shafer Children learn to grow. Charlotte Mason, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Sonya Shafer is a veteran homeschool mom of 4 daughters as well as a popular author and speaker and co-founder of Simply Charlotte Mason How Sonya first ...
10.13.2022 S3E41: Homeschooling in Community with Yolanda Mason Today’s guest is Yolanda Mason, wife and homeschooling mother of 4, founder of the Heritage Learning Center in Charlotte, NC How Yolanda first heard about Charlotte Mason Why and how she started the Heritage Learning Center What is the value ...
09.29.2022 S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours” Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot on which our curriculum turns. Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 273 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline ...
09.15.2022 S3E39: Swedish Drill with Dawn Duran This week Dawn Duran joins Cindy to discuss the value and practice of Swedish Drill How Dawn first learned about Charlotte Mason What exactly is Swedish Drill? What is the connection between Swedish Drill and Charlotte Mason? What are the ...
09.01.2022 S3E38: A Tribute to Wendi Capehart Our aim in education is to give a full life…. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests…. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all ...
07.28.2022 S2E37: Overcoming Fear in Homeschooling with Jennifer Pepito It is only in so far as Knowledge is dear to us and delights us for herself that she yields us lifelong joy and contentment. He who delights in her, not for the sake of showing off, and not for ...
07.21.2022 S2E36: Adapting Charlotte Mason Methods for the Dyslexic Student with Marcela Best God the Holy Spirit is himself, personally, the imparter of knowledge, the instructor of youth, the inspirer of genius…. every fruitful idea, every original conception whether in Euclid or grammar or music was a direct inspiration from the Holy Spirit. ...
07.07.2022 S2E35: Large Family Life and Charlotte Mason with Heather Tully Today’s guest is Heather Tully, wife, homeschooling mother of 10 children, and photographer of everyday life How Heather first came to hear about Charlotte Mason and made the transition from a neo-classical model How Heather manages many different ages of ...
06.16.2022 S2E34: Exams in the Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Celeste Cruz Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is ...
06.04.2022 S2E33: The Alveary Curriculum with Stephanie Russell It is the duty of the nation to maintain relations of brotherly kindness with other nations; therefore it is the duty of every family, as an integral part of the nation, to be able to hold brotherly speech with the ...
06.03.2022 S2E32: A Gentle Feast Curriculum with Brittney McGann Is the distinction between being free to choose the right at one’s own option, and not free to do the wrong, too subtle to be grasped, too elusive to be practical? It may be so, but it is precisely the ...
06.02.2022 S2E31: The Charlotte Mason Educational Center with Camille Malucci Let this be the mother’s key to the whole of the education of each boy and each girl; not of her children; the Divine Spirit does not work with nouns of multitude, but with each single child. Because He is ...
06.01.2022 S2E30: The AmblesideOnline Curriculum with Emily Tallent 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 ...
05.19.2022 S2E29: A Charlotte Mason Approach to Language Arts with Amy Snell Today’s guest is Amy Snell, a homeschooling mother of 5, as well as a speaker, teacher and encourager to fellow Charlotte Mason homeschoolers How did you first hear about Charlotte Mason? What do you think are the elements of language ...
05.09.2022 S2E27: The Value of Teaching Plutarch with Tom Cox …the one achievement possible and necessary for every man is character; and character is as finely wrought metal beaten into shape and beauty by the repeated and accustomed action of will. We who teach should make it clear to ourselves ...
05.05.2022 S2E28: Q&A Number 4 with Cindy and Dawn What if parents and teachers in their zeal misread the schedule of their duties, magnified their office unduly and encroached upon the personality of children? It is not an environment that these want, a set of artificial relations carefully, constructed, ...
04.21.2022 S2E27: The Value of Teaching Plutarch with Tom Cox …the one achievement possible and necessary for every man is character; and character is as finely wrought metal beaten into shape and beauty by the repeated and accustomed action of will. We who teach should make it clear to ourselves ...
04.07.2022 S2E26: Picturing Charlotte Mason with Lanaya Gore and Twila Farmer Let me repeat that I venture to suggest, not what is practicable in any household but what seems to me absolutely best for the children; and that, in the faith that mothers work wonders once they are convinced that wonders ...
03.17.2022 S2E25: Q&A No. 3 with Cindy and Dawn Today’s episode is another Q & A session with Cindy and Dawn How do you incorporate narration later on in a child’s schooling? Can you talk more about the importance of written narrations? How do you check all your students’ ...
03.03.2022 S2E24: Teaching to Special Needs with Charlotte Mason Methods with Karla Areas The average child studies with delight. We do not say he will remember all he knows, but, to use a phrase of Jane Austen’s, he will have had his “imagination warmed” in many regions of knowledge. Charlotte Mason, School Education, ...
02.10.2022 S2E23: Transitioning to a Charlotte Mason Homeschool with Dawn Garrett Today’s guest is Dawn Garrett, homeschooling mother of 3, and Community Manager at PamBarnhill.com How Dawn came to hear about Charlotte Mason after being a neo-Classical home educator What did your transition look like when you started using more Charlotte ...
02.03.2022 S2E22: Charlotte Mason Through High School with Jami Marstall We as teachers depreciate ourselves and our office; we do not realize that in the nature of things the teacher has a prophetic power of appeal and inspiration, that his part is not the weariful task of spoon-feeding with pap-meat, ...
01.27.2022 S2E21: Charlotte Mason and Special Education with Tammy Glaser Today’s guest is Tammy Glaser, mother of 2 adult children, one with special needs, as well as a founder of a Charlotte Mason private school How Tammy discovered Charlotte Mason and decided it would work well for her family Why ...
01.20.2022 S2E20: Cross-Cultural Education and Folk Songs with Wendi Capehart It is by the aid of imagination that a child comes to love people who do not belong to his own country, and as he learns the history of their great deeds and noble efforts, he is eager to learn ...
01.13.2022 S2E19: “However Imperfectly” with Donna-Jean Breckenridge But, once more, “This kind cometh forth only by prayer.” Charlotte Mason, Home Education, Vol. 1 Show Summary: Today’s guest is Donna-Jean Breckenridge, veteran homeschool mom, grandmother and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory How did Donna-Jean first hear about Charlotte ...
12.09.2021 S1E18: Q&A No. 2, On Classical Education with Cindy and Karen “Sound principles that are old may easily be laid on the shelf and forgotten, unless in each successive generation a few industrious people can be found who will take the trouble to draw them forth from the storehouse.” Thomas Godolphin ...
12.02.2021 S1E17: Charlotte Mason Methods in a School Setting with Adrienne Freas And what a barren and dry land should we dwell in if our spirits were narrowed to the limits of that which we can comprehend! Where we err is in supposing that mystery is confined to our religion, that everything ...
11.18.2021 S1E16: A “Hallelujah” Advent Celebration And, Mary, seeking meekly for direction, asked ‘how shall this be after the wont of men?’ and she was shewn how, by the immediate power of God Most High, the Child should be born, holy, the Son of God; and ...
11.11.2021 S1E15: Recitation Gatherings with Dawn Duran and Maria Bell I think all that I have written is still true, but I would emphasize habit and so-on less; child-mind, no, because a child has as much mind as the rest of us. Charlotte Mason, In a letter to Henrietta Franklin ...
11.04.2021 S1E14: On Studying Plutarch’s Lives with Anne White Insofar we are laying ourselves out to secure that each shall “live his life”; and that, not at his neighbor’s expense; because, so wonderful is the economy of the world that when a man really lives his life he benefits ...
10.21.2021 S1E13: Charlotte Mason Co-ops with Liz Wetzel Today’s guest is Liz Wetzel, mother of 5 and Charlotte Mason co-op leader How Liz found the need for a learning community that was sustainable How Liz came to know about Charlotte Mason’s philosophy Why Liz’s family left Classical Conversations ...
10.14.2021 S1E12: Charlotte Mason Study Groups with Jeannette Tulis “It is no arbitrary reward which is attached to the assembling of two or three together; we warm ourselves at each others’ fires, and glow with the heat we get. Let but the heads of two or three families meet ...
10.07.2021 S1E11: Q&A with Cindy and Dawn, No. 1 “It may be that the souls of all children are waiting for the call of knowledge to awaken them to delightful living.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s episode is our first Charlotte Mason Q&A; with ...
09.23.2021 S1E10: The Immeasurable Benefits of Nature Study with Naomi Goegan “How delicious it is to sit down with a twig.” A Student, as quoted by Charlotte Mason Show Summary: Today’s guest is Naomi Goegan, an Auxiliary member of AmblesideOnline How Naomi discovered Charlotte Mason’s philosophy What would you say to ...
09.16.2021 S1E9: Exploring Nature with Children with Lynn Seddon “Consider, too, what an unequaled mental training the child-naturalist is getting for any study or calling under the sun -the powers of attention, of discrimination, of patient pursuit, growing with his growth, what will they not fit him for?” Charlotte ...
09.09.2021 S1E8: Growing Up in a Charlotte Mason Home with Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp “Love, and the service of love, are the only things that count.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, Ourselves Show Summary: Today’s guest is Caitlin Bruce Beauchamp, daughter of Lynn Bruce and an AmblesideOnline graduate How Caitlin came to embrace Charlotte Mason’s ...
09.02.2021 S1E7: The Foundation of Narration with Karen Glass “The method is as old as the mind of man, the distressful fact is that it has been made so little use of in general education.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karen Glass, ...
08.19.2021 S1E6: Amy Edwards and Tina Mugglin on Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love “Even for their earliest reading lessons, it is unnecessary to put twaddle into the hands of children.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, Home Education Show Summary: Today’s guests are Amy Edwards and Tina Mugglin of Blue Sky Daisies Publishing How Amy ...
08.12.2021 S1E5: Have a Happier Homeschool with Lynn Bruce “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 ...
07.31.2021 S1E1: Welcome to The New Mason Jar Podcast! “The question is not, — how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education — but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the ...
07.31.2021 S1E2: Freedom Within the Philosophy with Leah Boden “There are few joys in life greater and more consistent than our joy in Beauty ” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 4, Ourselves Show Summary: Today’s guest is Leah Boden of Modern Miss Mason How Leah found out about the Charlotte Mason ...
07.31.2021 S1E3: “In Vital Harmony” with Karen Glass “The message for our age is, Believe in mind, and let education go straight as a bolt to the mind of the pupil.” Charlotte Mason, Vol. 6, Philosophy of Education Show Summary: Today’s guest is Karen Glass, author and member ...
07.31.2021 S1E4: Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles with Brandy Vencel “[T]he fact is, that a few broad essential principles cover the whole field, and these once fully laid hold of, it is as easy and natural to act upon them as it is to act upon our knowledge of such ...