CMP Review 2026-02-17

February 17, 2026

“One of the greatest benefits which the P.U.S. programmes have bestowed has been on the teachers,” proclaimed Helen Wix. “They have revived in them the desire to learn, they have made them realise their ignorance (a lesson we all need to learn), they have made students of them again, learning humbly and happily alongside their pupils.”

Miss Wix was explaining Charlotte Mason’s 8th principle, “Education is a Life.” Wix insisted that “‘Education is a life’ is the saying and the belief of an idealist, and all of us who are Miss Mason’s followers are necessarily idealist.”

We are told that nearly 1,000 people were present when Miss Wix uttered these powerful words. They were printed in The Parents’ Review in 1927 and then hidden away in a few libraries around the world.

But more than 1,000 people need to hear the valuable insights of Helen Wix. That’s why we’ve transcribed and recorded this important article for you, available today for free on the Internet for the very first time. Read or listen and let Miss Wix awaken the idealist in you. Find it here.

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