Episode Details

Guests 
Dr. Louis Markos: Houston Christian University: 

• Professor of English
• Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities
• Scholar-in-Residence

Dr. Patrick Egan: Clapham Christian Classical School

• Academic Dean
• Contributor of Educational Renaissance 

Jason Barney: Coram Deo Academy in Carmel, IN

• School Principal
• Author of Charlotte Mason: A Liberal Education for All (published by CAP)
• Contributor of Educational Renaissance 

Show Notes

• Common misunderstandings of Charlotte Mason (especially if you only read her principles)
• What does Mason say about memory work and how does it compare to Dorothy Sayer's view?
• Who in the Romantic era is good that Charlotte Mason embraced? 
• What did she reject from the Romantic philosophers?
• Various quotes from Mason that reflect her alignment to the liberal arts tradition
• What is her view of a child and how does it influence her pedagogy?
• How and why narration is classical and superior as a classical pedagogy
• What is Paideia? -- Does Mason have a paideia in her philosophy?
• How the habit training model of Charlotte Mason mirrors/agrees with the classical tradition

Resources Mentioned
The Great Books
John Locke, Coleridge, Wordsworth
Charlotte Mason: A Liberal Education for All by Jason Barney
For The Children's Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition by Karen Glass
Abolition of Man by CS Lewis
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education by Charlotte M. Mason (Centenary Expanded Edition has restored her original essay, "Two Education Ideals" where she compares Rousseau's Emile unfavorably to her favoring John Milton's Of Education)
Metalogicon by John of Salisbury
Institutes of Oratory by Quintilian
Charlotte Mason's

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