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 …
Cet article est également disponible en français, traduit par Un festin d’idées. G.K. Chesterton has famously said, “if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly” (Chesterton, 1910, p. 320). Charlotte Mason specifically says (and often implies) that “what is worth doing is worth doing well” (Mason, 1989d, Book I, p.172). Is it …