At the 2016 Charlotte Mason Institute Eastern Conference, I attended a workshop entitled “Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition.” The workshop explored in detail the famous fresco in the Spanish Chapel at Santa Maria Novella, described in many places in Mason’s collected writings. To be sure, I already knew that the phrase “Great Recognition” was not meant to describe an “a-ha” …
At the 2016 Charlotte Mason Institute Eastern Conference, I delivered a plenary session entitled “Charlotte Mason in the 21st Century.” The heart of my presentation was drawn from a 1912 article by Charlotte Mason entitled “Three Educational Idylls.” An idyll is defined as “a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life …
Editor’s Note, February 25, 2021: Slide 26 of the deck linked below has been amended with a clarifying note to incorporate insights gained from my latest research. —Art At the Charlotte Mason Institute 2016 Eastern Conference in Wilmore, Kentucky, I co-led a chat on the topic of “Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition.” At this chat, I presented …
This article first appeared on the Charlotte Mason Institute blog. El artículo está disponible en español. I am a homeschooling father who discovered Charlotte Mason while searching for a way to home educate my children. I am neither a scholar nor an educationalist. But I am a person who has experienced a genuine awakening as a …
Over the years perhaps the most frequently asked question by conservative Christians about Charlotte Mason is, “Did Charlotte Mason reject the doctrine of original sin?” Many essays, articles, and chapters have been written about this question. Most of these compositions begin with an attempt to interpret Mason’s second principle. This article takes a different starting point. By …
Several months ago I talked to the Deacon of my Anglican church about the theology of Charlotte Mason. I told him that Charlotte Mason said that children “are not born either good or bad, but with possibilities for good and for evil.” He instantly replied that Mason was wrong and that her statement was untrue. …
A few years ago when I was preparing a presentation for a Charlotte Mason conference, I surveyed the covers of books about Charlotte Mason. Most of the covers had a picture of a woman teaching a girl – presumably a mother and a daughter. Some of the covers skipped the mother and only showed the …
Although I grew up Episcopalian, I spent most of my adult years attending independent and non-denominational churches. My return to the Anglican church in 2007 was directly linked to my study of Charlotte Mason’s writings and my reflection on her ideas. In the fall of 2007, I discovered a small Anglican church plant in my …
“Well, I don’t say but you may get to know about most things from books, but as for knowing the thing itself, let me be introduced by him that knew it before me!” (Volume 5, p. 123) When I began to read Charlotte Mason’s writings in early 2005, my purpose was to become a more …