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 …
©2017 Morgan Conner As a co-hostess of Charlotte Mason Soirée, a large Facebook group dedicated to Charlotte Mason’s principles and methods, I noticed a recurring question: “Which of Miss Mason’s volumes should I read first?” The replies to that simple question revealed two distinct opinions in the Charlotte Mason community: some say to begin with …
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Charlotte Mason Living. In a previous post I talked about what a lovely and enriching experience it has been for our family to be part of Considering Lilies, our Charlotte Mason community. We are in our third year together and have settled into some comfortable rhythms and useful practices. …
Cet article est également disponible en français. Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. “the ‘Child a Person’ will be the very crux for our Crusade” (Mason, 1904, p. 10) The first principle of Charlotte Mason’s twenty-point synopsis reads simply: Children are born persons. (Mason, 1989f, p. xxix) Comprised of only four words, it …