The year is 1921. You’ve just heard about a revolutionary new method of education where children actually love to learn. It’s been developed by a woman named Charlotte M. Mason, who is still living. You find out that the method is especially suited to teaching one’s own children at home, which is exactly what you …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The November 2, 1915 edition of the Times Educational Supplement included an article by Maria Montessori. Charlotte Mason was swift to reply, and her letter was published in the December 7 issue of the same periodical. Three months later it was reprinted in the March 1916 Parents’ Review. It is …
A carefully selected living book. A comfy couch. Blankets and snuggles. Excellent and attentive narration. Core memories made. Hearts touched. Loving education as the atmosphere on which we build our lives. This was what I thought homeschooling would be like. No one bouncing on a yoga ball. No one interrupting my perfectly curated artist study, …
Editor’s Note, by Tabitha Wirges The beginning of this article explains the expectations surrounding a girl’s education at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century—ideas that will likely seem quite shocking to modern readers. As troubling as these views are, it is sad to realize that traces of such attitudes still …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff “Dear Mr. Household,” wrote Charlotte Mason in a letter dated March 27, 1922, “It is delightful to have a prospect of seeing & I hope hearing you.”[1] Miss Mason was referring to the upcoming PNEU Conference, to be held that year at the House of Education itself in Ambleside. The …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Miss C. D. Lawe was the headmistress of St. Agnes School, a private school in Babbacombe, Torquay. For at least twenty-five years she led the school in accordance with the PNEU programmes and method.[1] At a conference in 1920, she explained why she embraced the Charlotte Mason method: … those …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The 33rd Annual Conference of the PNEU was held in June 1921 at Mortimer Hall, London. The chairman opened the event by noting that “although Miss Mason was so far away at the moment, she was ever with them in spirit, her activities unceasing, and her interest as keen as …
Editor’s Note: This unique piece by Elsie Kitching was first published without comment in the November 1917 Parents’ Review. By E.K. The Parents’ Review, 1917, pp. 655-662 Now it came to pass that as the sons of men gazed upon the face of Science[1] they saw that she was very fair to look upon and …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Charlotte Mason’s third and apparently final 1917 letter to The Times on the subject of “A Liberal Education for All” was published in the May issue of The Parents’ Review. The timeline of letters is as follows: February 15: Charlotte Mason’s first letter March 1: A critical response March 18: …