CMP Review 2025-08-12

August 12, 2025

The 1880s featured a public debate between two leading thinkers, Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold. Their topic was the nature of a “liberal education.” Huxley and Arnold are familiar names to any reader of Charlotte Mason’s volumes. She quoted both of them favorably!

It would be so interesting to learn what Mason herself thought of this debate. Huxley had already defined his position in his famous 1868 essay “A Liberal Education and Where to Find It.” He employed a powerful analogy to a game of chess. Sadly, Mason did not seem to directly analyze this essay.

But in 1918, one of her students did. Now you can learn what House of Education graduate Marion King had to say about Huxley’s concept of a liberal education and where to find it. Read or hear it here.

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