Editor’s Note: One way that Charlotte Mason revolutionized education was by taking seriously the fact that a great portion of our thinking is “automatic.” She wrote: Thought is, for the most part, automatic. We think, without intention or effort, as we have been accustomed to think, just as we walk or write without any conscious arrangement …
Editor’s Note: From time to time I am asked about the place of creative writing in a Charlotte Mason education. It turns out that in the days of “Aunt Mai’s Budget,” creative writing took a most vibrant and visible place. “Aunt Mai’s Budget” was the special children’s section of The Parents’ Review which ran from …
Editor’s Note: By the time the May, 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review went to print, planning for the upcoming “Baby Number” was well underway. In that May issue, Henrietta Franklin wrote, “We are anxious to compile a list for publication in the July (Baby) number of the Parents’ Review. Suggestions should reach me before …
In the introduction to her devotional that accompanies the Gospel of John, Charlotte Mason penned these words: All important things are simple, and I often bear this in mind as we go about our days, whether we are gathered at the kitchen table for lessons or taking to the halls of our local art gallery. …
Miss G. C. Allen was a House of Education student who presumably graduated in 1898.[1] Many years later, at the 17th annual PNEU conference held in May of 1913, she delivered her talk “How We Teach History” as part of the “How We Teach” series, along with other House of Education graduates who spoke on …
Editor’s Note, by Maria Bell In 1896, the PNEU recommended a book which remains in publication today, A Manual of Clay-Modelling: “The instructions are very clear and good, the plates admirable, and the list of suggested models is exceedingly helpful to the teacher. The preface, by Mr. [T.G.] Rooper, deserves great attention as setting forth …
Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Agnes Smith was born in 1884[1] and graduated from the House of Education twenty years later.[2] She was active in the alumnae association,[3] and in 1911 she married the Rev. Richard Bevan Pyper.[4] In 1912 the couple had their first child, followed by a second in 1915.[5] Elizabeth passed along her enthusiasm …
Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina In 1909, the ink barely dry on her diploma from the University of London, a young woman by the name of Irene Stephens traveled north to join Charlotte Mason’s House of Education.[1] Her role at Ambleside was twofold—with a degree in mathematics and astronomy, she would serve as Lecturer in …
Editor’s Note: The July 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review was the “Baby Number,” dedicated to giving parents guidance for the early years. Charlotte Mason called upon several trusted thinkers and friends to contribute articles discussing activities for children younger than age six, when “definite lessons should begin.”[1] To treat the topic of books for …