CMP Review 2026-04-14

April 14, 2026

In 1920, an estimated 20,000 children were being educated according to the Charlotte Mason method. They were all invited to a special week of learning, discovery, and exploration in Whitby. This would be the second Children’s Gathering of the Parents’ Union School.

We are told that “each child on his arrival found an envelope addressed to him containing a letter of welcome from Miss Mason, a beautiful badge on which the motto, his name, form and group were painted, a plan of the spa and a special time-table.” However, not every attendee was a child. Some, for example, were teachers. So on the opening night of the gathering, Miss Mason’s letter was read aloud.

It was a letter to the children but it clearly had a message for the parents and teachers as well. That is why it was read aloud and then published in the Parents’ Review. (Later an abridged version was included in In Memoriam.) Today we share the full version, as it would have appeared in your envelope, and as you would have heard on opening night. Find it here.

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