You're listening to Skalais Sisters, episode number 14.

Welcome to Skalais Sisters, the podcast for the classical homeschooling mama,

who seeks to learn and grow while she's helping her children learn and grow.

Scalais Sisters is a casual conversation about topics that matter to those of us in the

trenches of classical homeschooling who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and

getting it all done. I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. You can find me at Afterthoughts, that's my main blog, and also

teaching reading with Bob Books, which is where I keep my line of printable phonics lessons.

My guest today is the one and only Wes Callahan, and I am thrilled. If you can believe it,

I got through the entire interview without acting like a total fan girl. Wes Callahan,

for those of you who don't know, grew up on a farm in Idaho, graduated with a degree in history

from the University of Idaho, and has been teaching literature and history for 30 years.

For the last 20 years, he has run Scola Classical Tutorials, live internet courses in the

great books, and Hill Abbey Hall, a one-year post-high school residence study program.

He speaks regularly at Classical Christian Education conferences, leads summer courses in early

church history, has contributed to books and journals on classical education, and leads tours of Greece and

Turkey. Wes and his wife Danny have six grown children and 12 grandchildren. Wes and Danny live

in an old farmhouse in northern Idaho near Wes's parents, and most of the kids and grandkids

where six generations of the family have lived on the same farm.

This episode is sponsored by Start Here, the definitive starting place for studying Charlotte Mason.

When Charlotte Mason was trying to distill her educational philosophy into its simplest form, she ended up with 20 core principles.

These are the 20 most important aspects of her philosophy.

Using the book for the children's sake, Charlotte Mason's volumes, articles from her magazine,

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