CMP Review 2025-01-16
January 16, 2025
In 1892 Charlotte Mason wrote, “We find that the feeling is gaining ground, that ‘Education’ demands more than mere reading; many mothers feel that they would be the better in body and mind for the mental activity that nothing but definite study affords and the time seems ripe for the carrying out of another item of our original programme, and we have made arrangements for a course of study on Education—a three years’ course—with questions.”
Miss Mason called this the Mothers’ Educational Course, and it was run as a correspondence school for 23 years. According to In Memoriam, in 1899 about 80 mothers were working on it.
A syllabus of the course has been preserved from circa 1905 and our team has transcribed it. It is fascinating, challenging, and inspiring to review the list of books that Mason assigned to home-educating parents to read over a three-year span.
Take a moment to review it here. Do any of the books surprise you? Have you read any of them? Are there any you would like to read? Let us know in the comments.
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