Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Essex Cholmondeley (1892–1985) is known to many as the first biographer of Charlotte Mason. In fact, she spent most of her adult life advancing Charlotte Mason’s ideas. Cholmondeley studied under Charlotte Mason at the House of Education and received her certificate in 1919. On February 15, 1923, she gave a …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1902, George F. Husband left Stockton-on-Tees to work for the school system of neighboring Middlesbrough. There he eventually found himself headmaster of an elementary school. But it was no ordinary elementary school. It was a school “where the children came from among the poorest and most disreputable part of slumland, familiarized with …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff At the Living Education Retreat this past summer, I introduced what I call the Fundamental Law of Scheduling: scope = pace × time Scope is how much content is covered. For example, how many chapters are in your algebra book. Pace is how fast the material is presented. For example, …
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1931, House of Education graduate Geraldine Downton wrote, “Special time is allowed for Nature Books on the time tables of all forms in the P.U.S.”[1] This remark puzzled me for several years, since I had never seen a PNEU time table that scheduled time for nature notebooks. From time …