Mr. John Russell was the Headmaster of King Alfred School in 1902. It was a new and independent school, established in 1898. And it was progressive: The King Alfred School was founded in 1898 by a group of parents who believed in the then radical idea that boys and girls should be educated together in a …
Cet article est également disponible en français. Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. “the ‘Child a Person’ will be the very crux for our Crusade” (Mason, 1904, p. 10) The first principle of Charlotte Mason’s twenty-point synopsis reads simply: Children are born persons. (Mason, 1989f, p. xxix) Comprised of only four words, it …
After a delightful time in Italy with my daughter, I had an unusually long layover in London. We decided to get on the train and pay one more visit to the Armitt to see what new secrets we could find. Due to the constraints of the layover, I realized that we would only have about …
The first definition that Webster gives for pure is “unmixed with any other matter.” Several secondary definitions are like it: “being thus and no other”; “containing nothing that does not properly belong.” A word that means the opposite of pure in this sense would be hybrid: “something heterogeneous in origin or composition” (Merriam-Webster, 2003). What happens when we apply these …
At Charlotte Mason Poetry, one of our goals is to promote an authentic interpretation of Charlotte Mason’s writings. Why is that important? Is it because we have a slavish loyalty to a particular historical figure, a loyalty bordering on idolatry? Is it because we believe that this one person alone in history has received the mantle of …
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Charlotte Mason Living. By the time my daughter reached the age for formal schooling, we had already decided to follow Charlotte Mason’s method. Barbara and I divided up the subjects and one that I took was Bible. I trusted the method with my own child-like faith, and implemented …
Charlotte Mason wrote six volumes of original poetry inspired by the Gospel history of the life of Christ. She published the volumes between 1908 and 1914. She intended to write two more volumes, but it has been assumed that she never started them. Recently, however, Linda Fern recognized that some of the handwritten pages in Charlotte Mason’s archive …
In 2002, ISI Books published the landmark Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons. However, it was not until 2005 that the CiRCE Institute awarded Simmons the prestigious Paideia Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Classical Education. This award places Simmons comfortably alongside other classical education heavyweights such as David Hicks and James Taylor, winners of the Paideia Prize in 2002 and 2007, respectively. The CiRCE …
In the summer of 2010, I had the privilege of meeting Jason Fletcher, who is the director of a Charlotte Mason school in Cambridge, England. Jason is personally connected to the Charlotte Mason story in that his wife Fiona is the daughter of Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, author of For the Children’s Sake. I remember very …