This podcast episode on the Charlotte Mason method of education focuses on some listener questions, notably, what to do about dawdlers, how to motivate apathetic students, and a couple of particulars about implementing history lessons. Listen Now: If you are seeing this message, please make sure you are using the most current version of your web browser: Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, Chrome "Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin; and, 'God has made us so' that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food." (Vol. 2, p. 39) Carry On, Mr. Bowditch String, Straightedge, and Shadow The Story of Geronimo I Buy a School Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Stillwell and the American Experience in China (Contains affiliate links)