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Charlotte Mason Poetry
June 3, 2025
Readers and Critics

Readers and Critics

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Felix Hope was a writer whose fascinating articles appeared in The Church Quarterly Review, The Parents’ Review, and other vintage periodicals. His contributions to The Parents’ Review spanned the years 1924 to 1931 and included such interesting titles as “Some Thoughts on Reading Old Books.” His articles from 1924 dealt …

May 27, 2025
The PNEU Method in Sunday Schools

The PNEU Method in Sunday Schools

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Helen Wix was a House of Education graduate who played a significant role in the advancement of Charlotte Mason’s ideas during Miss Mason’s lifetime and beyond. As early as 1917 she was promoting the method by speaking at a meeting of Sunday School teachers. The paper she read was published …

May 20, 2025
The Week’s Message, by Charlotte Mason

The Week’s Message, by Charlotte Mason

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The Teacher’s World was a journal published in the first part of the last century. Originally it appeared as two separate periodicals, The Woman Teacher’s World and The Teacher, but these were combined into one around 1914. The cover story of the March 4, 1914 issue was written by Charlotte …

May 13, 2025
Learning to Live

Learning to Live

“On my arrival at Ambleside I was interviewed by Miss Mason who asked me for what purpose I had come. I replied: ‘I have come to learn to teach.’ Then Miss Mason said: ‘My dear, you have come here to learn to live.’” — a new student at Charloe Mason’s teacher training college It is …

May 6, 2025
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina 2025 marks the 250th year of Jane Austen’s birth. In celebration, we are adding another article to our Jane Austen repertoire. This one comes in the form of a Scale How Tuesday, an evening gathering in which a teaching student at the House of Education presents on a favorite author …

April 29, 2025
Conference at the House of Education

Conference at the House of Education

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1906 “the head of an important school” approached Charlotte Mason and suggested that she convene a conference of educational leaders. The purpose would be “to confer as to the possibility of introducing a common curriculum for children under 14 into secondary schools.”[1] Charlotte Mason followed the suggestion, at least …

April 22, 2025
Easter Day

Easter Day

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The final Scale How Meditation to be published in Charlotte Mason’s lifetime appeared in the 1909 Parents’ Review. However, and perhaps to the surprise of readers, a new meditation was unveiled two years after Mason’s death in the April 1925 issue. It was said to be Miss Mason’s Easter Day …

April 15, 2025
The War And The Children

The War And The Children

Editor’s Note. This letter from Charlotte Mason was first published in The Times and then reprinted in the April 1915 issue of The Parents’ Review. In this letter Mason formally addressed the nation as the doyen, or senior representative, of teachers. By Charlotte M. Mason The Parents’ Review, 1915, pp. 269-274 Sir,—This is a time …

April 8, 2025
Escaping the Clutches of the Cadillac Course

Escaping the Clutches of the Cadillac Course

You might recall the homeschool product reviews the Andreola family wrote for a Christian catalog for 14 years (2000–2014). Who knew anything about the quantity of stuff we didn’t review? Here’s a look at one evening during our last year of writing reviews. Another Box of Curriculum Samples Letting the dishes soak, I decided to …

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