Editor’s Note: Charlotte Mason defined her Short Synopsis in 1904. We typically refer to it today as her “Twenty Principles.” Sixty years later, some in the PNEU were thinking that this synopsis was no longer the most accessible “elevator pitch” for the Charlotte Mason method: For some time it has been thought that The Synopsis was …
Editor’s Note: Chapter 13 of Charlotte Mason’s Parents and Children is a lengthy exposition of Henry Beeching’s Eleven Sermons on Faith. This chapter is a lynchpin of Mason’s theology, a stunning repudiation of dualism. In fact, she opens the chapter with the heading, “Things ‘Sacred’ and Things ‘Secular’ an Irreligious Classification.” For years, Mason’s detailed exposition …
Editor’s Note: At the 2018 Charlotte Mason Living Retreat, I spoke on the topic of “How to Learn the Charlotte Mason Method.” In that talk, I suggest that parents new to the method “start with four.” When I finished my presentation, my fifteen-year-old daughter Anesley came forward and shared about her experience growing up with these …
Edith Escombe (1866–1950) was a writer of stories and essays who contributed many articles to The Parents’ Review. A collection of her articles was republished in 1906 in a book entitled Old Maids’ Children. Charlotte Mason described the book as being “evoked, we may hope, by the Parents’ Review.” According to Mason, “The author knows …
Is education scientific or is it sacred? Is it physical or spiritual? Pragmatic or ideal? Listen to Art Middlekauff’s synthesis of Charlotte Mason’s thought. Recorded live at the 2018 Charlotte Mason Living Retreat. The accompanying slides are available for download. http://media.blubrry.com/charlottemasonpoetry/p/charlottemasonpoetry.org/podcast/Sacrament.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Stitcher
Editor’s Note: Rose Amy Pennethorne (1875-1955) studied at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education and graduated in 1898. She then “had several posts in Home Schoolrooms,” during which time she was editor of L’Umile Pianta, the alumnae magazine of the House of Education. Her love for the Charlotte Mason method blossomed into full-time service to the PNEU when the Executive Committee …
Not so very long ago, I was in the car with my six-year old when he asked, “Did God make that truck?” “Nope. But God made the people who made the truck.” He studied my face. “Okay.” Then he resumed staring out the window. Several weeks later, I thought of that exchange, and I saw …
Editor’s note: On January 5, 1929, six years after Charlotte Mason’s death, Horace West Household spoke at the The North of England Education Conference in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Household was then the Director of Education for Gloucestershire, and he would later be referred to as Mason’s “ardent disciple.” The topic for his talk was “A Liberal Education in the Rural Elementary School.” …
June was a big month for me: it was my first time teaching a workshop about the Charlotte Mason method. I was the local hostess for the Charlotte Mason Soirée Summer Mountain Mini, and my topic was scaffolding. I worked out a session description with my co-presenter: With such a rich feast it’s easy to …