CMP Review 2025-11-18

November 18, 2025

A seven-year-old asked his mother, “Why didn’t you give me one of those pretty names we hear in the stories at school?” (He preferred Ulysses to his own name Kenneth.)

And Allan’s mother “would have done much better if she had called him Achilles.”

The year was 1920 and a head master of a council school was explaining how the alleged “difficulties” with the Charlotte Mason method vanish when it is put into practice.

This head master was not a House of Education graduate. He was a man who was set in his ways. But new ideas changed all that, and he would never go back. (Even though, in a sense, he had once been a “Mason boy”!)

Hear his wonderful story and how difficulties go away in the vintage article here.

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