S4E52: Music Education in the Charlotte Mason Paradigm with Megan Hoyt

The New Mason Jar with Cindy Rollins

…what if the devitalisation we notice in so many of our young people, keen about games but dead to things of the mind, is due to the processes carried on in our schools, to our plausible and pleasant ways of picturing, eliciting, demonstrating, illustrating, summarising, doing all those things for children which they are born with the potency to do for themselves? No doubt we do give intellectual food, but too little of it; let us have courage and we shall be surprised, as we are now and then, at the amount of intellectual strong meat almost any child will take at a meal and digest at his leisure.

Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education Show Summary:

• Today’s guest is Megan Hoyt, veteran homeschooling mom, musician and author
• Megan tells how she picked up her love of music from her parents and passed it on to her own
• What is the overall theme of A Touch of the Infinite?
• What are some of the misconceptions you think people have about Charlotte Mason and music education?
• What did music education look like in your own homeschool?
• How Megan wrote A Touch of the Infinite and what is in the book
• How did you start writing children’s books?

Books and Links Mentioned:

Bartali’s Bicycle by Megan Hoyt

The Greatest Song of All by Megan Hoyt

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude edited by Miranda Paul

Hidegard’s Gift by Megan Hoyt

A Touch of the Infinite by Megan Hoyt

Find Cindy and Megan:

Morning Time for Moms

Cindy’s Patreon Discipleship Group

Mere Motherhood Facebook Group

The Literary Life Podcast

Cindy’s Facebook

Cindy’s Instagram

Megan’s Website

Megan’s Facebook

Megan’s Instagram

Megan’s Twitter