CMP Review 2025-10-28

October 28, 2025

The Charlotte Mason method prescribes that formal Bible lessons normally begin when the child is six years old. What is the nature of these first Bible lessons? And what experiences with the Bible might children have who are younger than six years of age?

Essex Cholmondeley is well-known as Charlotte Mason’s first biographer. In 1923 she had only recently graduated from the House of Education and was soon to begin a lifetime of work with the PNEU. It was in that year that she spoke on the topic of first Bible lessons.

“Some houses contain a library, a room whose walls are lined with the inviting backs of books,” she began. But “There is another kind of Library which every household possesses or may possess.” That Library is … the Bible.

Read or hear Cholmondeley’s inspiring article here.

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