CMP Review 2024-10-31

October 31, 2024

The 34th annual report of the PNEU for the years 1924–1925 was published in the September 1925 issue of the Parents’ Review. Compiled by Willingham Rawnsley, Elsie Kitching, and Ellen Parish, it was the first such report since the passing of the PNEU’s founder, Miss Charlotte Mason.

The annual report opened with a handful of sections including an account of the Children’s Gathering at Wembly. Then followed a section entitled “New Publications.” The leading publication was Charlotte Mason’s An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education, which “was published on January 1st, 1925, together with a pamphlet ‘Some Impressions of the Method.’”

The report devoted four paragraphs to describing this important work. “The book is of set purpose a considerable one,” it stated, “for Miss Mason wished to leave a record of her theory and practice in one volume, which she hoped would be of use in the years to come.”

The description provides a valuable summary and assessment of the book by those who were entrusted to carry on Charlotte Mason’s movement. You can now read the transcribed piece here.

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