Is education scientific or is it sacred? Is it physical or spiritual? Pragmatic or ideal? Listen to Art Middlekauff’s synthesis of Charlotte Mason’s thought. Recorded live at the 2018 Charlotte Mason Living Retreat. The accompanying slides are available for download.
Editor’s Note: Rose Amy Pennethorne (1875-1955) studied at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education and graduated in 1898. She then “had several posts in Home Schoolrooms,” during which time she was editor of L’Umile Pianta, the alumnae magazine of the House of Education. Her love for the Charlotte Mason method blossomed into full-time service to the PNEU when the Executive Committee …
Editor’s note: On January 5, 1929, six years after Charlotte Mason’s death, Horace West Household spoke at the The North of England Education Conference in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Household was then the Director of Education for Gloucestershire, and he would later be referred to as Mason’s “ardent disciple.” The topic for his talk was “A Liberal Education in the Rural Elementary School.” …
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet: This is not done by jostling in the street.” —William Blake. By Elsie Kitching The Parents’ Review, 1921, pp.44-54, 92-101 We all feel the jostling of the after war problems and are sometimes inclined to wonder if ever the jostling will cease and a time come …
Editor’s note: I am pleased today to share the final essay in our series by Dr. Benjamin Bernier, read to us so engagingly by musician Greg Rolling. I am confident that with Dr. Bernier’s careful presentation of original documents and historical facts, “the essential Christian discipleship aspect of Mason’s work will be recognized for what it …
Editor’s note: Today we share the fourth in a series of five essays from 2017. This episode explains that the core of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy “is the concept that the primary task of education is the ‘nourishment of ideas.’ This nourishment is directly related to both the work of the Holy Spirit (as the educator of mankind) and the person …
Editor’s note: Today’s episode is the third in a series of five essays from 2017 which demonstrate that Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy can be characterized as a Christ-centered philosophy of education for Christian discipleship, a unique contribution in the history of Christian and educational thought. Greg Rolling shares his wonderful talent as reader and performer to bring …
Editor’s note: Today we share the second in a series of five essays from 2017 which demonstrate that Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy can be characterized as a Christ-centered philosophy of education for Christian discipleship, a unique contribution in the history of Christian and educational thought. Greg Rolling has again shared his wonderful talent as reader and …
Editor’s note: In the early months of 2017, Dr. Benjamin Bernier wrote a series of five original essays to demonstrate that Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy can be characterized as a Christ-centered philosophy of education for Christian discipleship, a unique contribution in the history of Christian and educational thought. Later that year, Charlotte Mason Poetry introduced a …