Sep 29, 2022
Next in order to religious knowledge, history is the pivot on
which our curriculum turns.
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
Books and Links Mentioned:
Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason
This Country of Ours, Vol.1 by H.E. Marshall: Annotated, Expanded and Updated by Donna-Jean Breckenridge
A Reasoned Patriotism Webinar with Dawn Duran
Find Cindy and Donna-Jean:
Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group