CMP Review 2025-05-20

May 20, 2025

In February 1913, Charlotte Mason received the examiner’s report on the work done by children in the Parents’ Union School. She was thrilled and wrote to her confidante Henrietta Franklin:

No school anywhere could furnish such a record, I feel more and more ashamed that we should be keeping all this good thing to ourselves. We must make it national, quite independent of us—for we have already almost more than an organization can manage. You will have to talk to teachers like anything!

It was the beginning of a new phase of outreach that would dominate the final decade of Miss Mason’s life. An early part of that outreach was a front-page article by Mason herself that appeared in the March 4, 1914 issue of The Teacher’s World. It was her concise appeal to teachers across the nation to adopt her method.

How can we best summarize the reasons we use the Charlotte Mason method? Perhaps Mason’s own summary of 1914 can point the way. Read or listen to our transcription of this important piece here.

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