CMP Review 2024-10-22

October 22, 2024

The year was 1906. The Home Education Series was finally complete. Five matching volumes with dark green covers and gilded letters. A method of education had been fully documented. A life work was complete. Now Miss Charlotte Mason could finally move on to other tasks.

But something else happened in 1906. A different seed was planted, a seed that would grow at an astonishing rate. It was not planted in Mason’s English soil, but it would grow until its branches reached the ends of the earth.

We rarely forecast our circumstances; we rarely choose them; we rarely control them. But there is one thing we can always control: our response.

Mason reached for her pen and got to work. The last word had not been said after all. It was time to write an essay. An essay bigger, bolder, broader than the series that came before. An essay to call out to England and to call out to the world. An essay for the ages. An essay towards a philosophy of education.

Read the electrifying story of Charlotte Mason’s final volume, a story that ends with an important announcement. Find it here.

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