Reading through Charlotte Mason’s six volumes, you will rarely come across the word “sloyd,” but if you look through the archives you will find statements like this: “Miss Mason always says she believes Sloyd to be the most valuable and most educative of all the handicrafts” (Pennethorne, 1906, p. 3). So what exactly is sloyd and …
By R. A. Pennethorne L’Umile Pianta, April, 1906 Editor’s Note: Since first learning about it three years ago, the principles of sloyd have resonated with me. This particular article took my understanding to a new level and sent me on a quest to learn more about cardboard sloyd and its importance in a Charlotte Mason …
Like many of you, I feel that this time of teaching my children is my own second opportunity for a real education. As my knowledge of Miss Mason and the work of the P.N.E.U. has grown, I have become fascinated by the efforts and struggles of the mothers and governesses employing the method. I regularly …
By The Ven. Archdeacon Blunt, D.D. Vicar of Scarborough, &c. Editor’s note: This article appeared in the opening pages of the December, 1890 issue of The Parents’ Review, in the first year of the magazine’s existence. Written by Richard Frederick Lefevre Blunt, the article was first read by him as a paper before the Church …
© Lisa Osika 2017 I’ve noticed the term purist surfacing frequently in the Charlotte Mason educational world. And it has me wondering – Am I a Charlotte Mason purist? What does the home-learning life of a Charlotte Mason purist look like? My mind wanders back over ten years of homeschooling my four children. I, who …
Editor’s Note Essex Cholmondeley describes a special event that took place in 1916: A conference earlier in the year [1916] had been held at Bingley. Here papers were read: ‘Theory’ by Miss Mason and ‘Practice’ by Miss A. C. Drury. These were published and appeared as ‘A Liberal Education for All,’ copies being sent to …
Eve Anderson was five years old when she first set foot in a PNEU school (Anderson, 2004, p. 10). Perhaps this early school experience affected her decision as a young woman to enroll in the Charlotte Mason College, formerly the House of Education: I was fortunate enough to spend three years at the college, albeit nearly …
Mr. John Russell was the Headmaster of King Alfred School in 1902. It was a new and independent school, established in 1898. And it was progressive: The King Alfred School was founded in 1898 by a group of parents who believed in the then radical idea that boys and girls should be educated together in a …
When I first began to implement Miss Mason’s methods I may have thought, a time or two, that things must have been so much easier for the mothers and governesses in Mason’s time. The mothers were all upper class gentlewomen, right? Wrong, actually. But did that really matter anyway? Even for the women who had …