About The Guests

Karen Glass is part of the Advisory of AmblesideOnline. She has four children, ages 13 to 27, who have been homeschooled using Charlotte Mason’s methods from beginning to end. Karen has been studying and writing about Charlotte Mason and Classical Education for over twenty years and has written the popular books Consider This: Charlotte Mason and The Classical Tradition, Know and Tell: The Art of Narration, In Vital Harmony, and her newest book A Thinking Love: Studies from Charlotte Mason's Home Education.

Dr. Robert Terry has over twenty years of experience in classical education. He has been a teacher of multiple disciplines, a curriculum designer, and has worked extensively in teacher training and development. He has served as the Curriculum Director and Vice President of Academics at a multi-campus University-model classical Christian school in the Dallas area. While academic head he successfully accomplished two ACCS accreditations. Before discovering classical education, Robert was a CPA. He has also served his school as a Finance Director in the past. Robert holds an MA in Philosophy focusing on the great Christian texts and a Doctorate focused on the work of the Oxford Inklings. He has been married to Elisabeth for twenty-five years and has been active in homeschooling their four grown children.

Show Notes
On this episode, my guests discuss the important connections that Mason made from reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge's On Method. We discuss how important this connection is to her philosophy, as well as how it has had an impact on the classical education movement. Some important discussion points include:

The poet's influence on Mason
The revitalization of Shakespeare, wonder, and a curiosity framework in education
A deep understanding of ideas and making relational connections
Method as it is tied to a pedagogy
Mason's method of a lesson and how to properly interpret her 20 principles
Reason for caution: Why reading Charlotte Mason in part can be misleading

Resources
If you want to read Coleridge, Karen Glass recommends this version. It is a facsimile of the same version that Mason had in her PNEU library: A Dissertation On The Science Of Method ISBN: 978-1018198736

Karen's blog on Coleridge and Mason Connections: https://www.karenglass.net/page/2/?s=coleridge

Connections with Coleridge #1—A nod from Charlotte Mason

Connections with Coleridge #2—Introducing Treatise on Method

Connections with Coleridge #3—Law and Order

Connections with Coleridge #3.5—A Speculative Detour

Connections with Coleridge #4—Dipping into Method

Connections with Coleridge #5—In Pursuit of Method

Connections with Coleridge #6—Meet the Philosophers

Connections with Coleridge #7—Laws, Ideas, and Truth

Connections with Coleridge #8—A short history of the education of mankind

Connections with Coleridge #9—In Search of the Soul

Connections with Coleridge #10—A Few Final Words

Treatise On Method: Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge

Kuala Khan: Coleridge

Shakespeare

Francis Bacon

Plato

C.S. Lewis

Tolkien

Quintilion

Pascal

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Coleridge and Charlotte Mason with Karen Glass and Dr. Robert Terry