© Lisa Osika 2017 I’ve noticed the term purist surfacing frequently in the Charlotte Mason educational world. And it has me wondering – Am I a Charlotte Mason purist? What does the home-learning life of a Charlotte Mason purist look like? My mind wanders back over ten years of homeschooling my four children. I, who …
Editor’s Note Essex Cholmondeley describes a special event that took place in 1916: A conference earlier in the year [1916] had been held at Bingley. Here papers were read: ‘Theory’ by Miss Mason and ‘Practice’ by Miss A. C. Drury. These were published and appeared as ‘A Liberal Education for All,’ copies being sent to …
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 …
©2017 Morgan Conner As a co-hostess of Charlotte Mason Soirée, a large Facebook group dedicated to Charlotte Mason’s principles and methods, I noticed a recurring question: “Which of Miss Mason’s volumes should I read first?” The replies to that simple question revealed two distinct opinions in the Charlotte Mason community: some say to begin with …
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 …
Atmosphere, Discipline & Life at the Dinner Table ©2017 Anna Migeon “If the child dislike his dinner, he swallows it, but the digestion of that distasteful meal is a laborious, much-impeded process.… Hence it is not a matter of pampering them at all, but a matter of health, of due nutrition, that the children should enjoy …
© 2017 Jennifer Bascom Eucharist, which means thanksgiving, can take many forms. I celebrate Eucharist on Sunday mornings in the Orthodox Church, and I celebrate Eucharist as I write these words about education and how it has played a part in my own transformation. I distinctly remember a moment in 2010 that embarrasses me now. I was talking …
Editor’s note: Lisa Osika lives near Omaha, Nebraska and is a homeschool mother of four children ages one to fourteen. She has homeschooled her children according to the principles of a Charlotte Mason Living Education since the beginning, but each year has brought new revelations and understanding. She organizes a Charlotte Mason book study in Omaha and …
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 …