Podcast Episodes

The Role of Vocations in Planning

Episode 123

When we plan, we need to be planning to work within our vocations.

Published on 7 years, 8 months ago

Education Requires Language

Episode 122

It is by means of language that we both procure and use wisdom – for does not thought require language?

So practice in speaking and in using language (today we would add writing as a method of discour…

Published on 7 years, 8 months ago

Build the Habit of Looking at Your Plan

Episode 121

The real secret of making your planners work is actually looking at it.

Published on 7 years, 8 months ago

Where Education Begins & Ends

Episode 120

Education in the broad, unspecialized sense is summed up as how to obey and how to rule.

One who rules without obeying is a tyrant, one who obeys without ruling is a slave.

And both truly all begins wh…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Planning Seasonally

Episode 119

Planning is not always going to be the same. We need to be flexible according to our needs at the time we're in.

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

A Teacher’s Goals

Episode 118

Mothers must be both teachers and learners.

As mothers home with our children all day every day, we are their primary influence, especially in the younger years. We can’t just wing it and expect great…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Your Planner is a Focus Tool

Episode 117

Learn what your planner really is supposed to be doing for you.

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

A Teacher’s Attention

Episode 116

If we start off on this homeschool journey with no idea what education is, why we’re doing it, or where we want to be at the end, we’ll flounder, frustrated and fickle. We’ll have no idea whether wha…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

Are You Trapped in Productive Procrastination?

Episode 115

Productive procrastination is doing anything except what you really ought to be doing.

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago

The Reason for Education

Episode 114

The one thread that strings through all the classical educators from Perrin to Plato is that education’s aim is virtue – not a diploma, not a job, not a stack of accomplishments. Our children – and e…

Published on 7 years, 9 months ago