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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S5E66: Q&A No. 7, On the Bu...

09.21.2023

“There can be no great art without great fable. Great art can only exist where great men brood intensely on something upon which all men brood a little. Without a popular body of fable there can be no unselfish art ...

The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins episodes:

09.21.2023 S5E66: Q&A No. 7, On the Building Blocks of Story “There can be no great art without great fable. Great art can only exist where great men brood intensely on something upon which all men brood a little. Without a popular body of fable there can be no unselfish art ...
09.07.2023 S5E65: Building a Home Library with Jeannette Tulis and Sherry Early As for Literature–to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know ...
08.17.2023 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 ...
08.03.2023 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 ...
07.20.2023 S5E62: The Role of a Homeschool Dad with Dan Bunting Without knowledge, Reason carries a man into the wilderness and Rebellion joins company. The man is not to be blamed: it is a glorious thing to perceive your mind, your reasoning power, acting of its own accord as it were ...
07.06.2023 S5E61: The Great Recognition with Camille Malucci In the things of science, in the things of art, in the things of practical everyday life, his God doth instruct him and doth teach him, her God doth instruct her and doth teach her. Let this be the mother’s ...
06.22.2023 S4E60: The Building Blocks of Story with Angelina Stanford and Timilyn Downey Commonplace Tales: Tales of Imagination––Stories, again, of the Christmas holidays, of George and Lucy, of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so ...
06.08.2023 S4E59: A Reasoned Patriotism with Dawn Duran The honor due to our country…is not to be confounded with the ignorant and impertinent attitude of the Englishman or the Chinese who believes that to be born an Englishman or a Chinese puts him on a higher level than ...
05.19.2023 Bonus Episode: The Uphill Road – Summer Discipleship with Cindy and Friends After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and a limitation of interests. ...
05.18.2023 S4E58: An Orthodox Jewish Approach to Charlotte Mason with Bethany Mandel Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child,–the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,–the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making. Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education Show Summary: ...
05.04.2023 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 ...
04.20.2023 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 ...
04.06.2023 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 ...
03.30.2023 S4E54: Lent, Easter, and “Ourselves” with Anne White ...to be born a human being is like coming into a very great estate; so much in the way of goodness, greatness, heroism, wisdom, and knowledge, is possible to us all. Charlotte Mason, Ourselves, Book 1 Show Summary: Today’s returning ...
03.23.2023 S4E53: High School and College Prep Using AmblesideOnline with Melissa McMahan 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 room in which he ...
03.09.2023 S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt …what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our young people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and pleasant ways of ...
02.23.2023 S4E51: Homeschooling Boys the Charlotte Mason Way with Alanna Hendon Let us consider carefully what feelings we wish to stimulate or repress in our children, and then, having made up our minds, let us say nothing. Charlotte Mason, Parents and Children Show Summary: Today’s guest is Alanna Hendon, homeschooling mom ...
02.09.2023 S4E50: Public School Teacher to Charlotte Mason Homeschooler with Timilyn Downey Stories….of the amusements, foibles, and virtues of children in their own condition of life, leave nothing to the imagination. The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any ...
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 ...

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