S3E40: Donna-Jean Breckenridge on Updating “This Country of Ours”

Sep 29, 2022

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 Advisory
Before getting to main the subject matter, Donna-Jean gives homeschooling moms a little encouragement and exhortation
How This Country of Ours was chosen as a history spine for AmblesideOnline
Why Donna-Jean decided to expand and update the book
How Donna-Jean annotated, expanded and updated This Country of Ours
What she hopes this new version accomplishes

It is never too late to mend but we may not delay to offer such a liberal and generous diet of History to every child in the country as shall give weight to his decisions, consideration to his actions and stability to his conduct; that stability, the lack of which has plunged us into many a stormy sea of unrest.
Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education, Vol. 6, p. 179