Charlotte Mason Poetry
Episodes
The Teaching of Geography, by Mr. G. H. Smith
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull This article was of particular interest to me because of my research on the Ambleside Geography Readers and the role of ...
A Liberal Education For All, by Daisy Golding
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Miss Mason was looking through the Christmas examination papers in February 1920. ‘What a long time since I have...
The Need for a Liberal Education
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The Contemporary Review was a monthly journal, founded in 1866, which “became known as a forum for open, erudite...
The Manifestation of Christ in Worship
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The April 1924 Parents’ Review included a powerful piece by Francis Lewis. We are not told whether it was origin...
The New Facility in Composition
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In last week’s episode we shared a second paper from the June 1920 teacher’s conference in Gloucester. This we...
Certain Difficulties
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff One of the great chapters in the epic story of the Charlotte Mason method involves the introduction of the complet...
Vehicle of Imagination
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff On the front page of the November/December 1971 PNEU Journal, editor Joan Molyneux wrote: There are PNEU Members i...
The Heart of a Child
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Sermons by Francis Lewis frequently appeared in the pages of The Parents’ Review. He was a devoted friend of Cha...
First Bible Lessons
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Essex Cholmondeley (1892–1985) is known to many as the first biographer of Charlotte Mason. In fact, she spent m...
Some Notes on Narration
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1902, George F. Husband left Stockton-on-Tees to work for the school system of neighboring Middlesbrough. Ther...
Notes from a Home Schoolroom Parent
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff At the Living Education Retreat this past summer, I introduced what I call the Fundamental Law of Scheduling: scop...
The Group Organization
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1931, House of Education graduate Geraldine Downton wrote, “Special time is allowed for Nature Books on the t...
The Education of the Spirit
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff “I am quite sure that those who have gathered here this evening have come here full of anticipation because of t...
Now he wants to read
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the summer of 1966, the name of The Parents’ Review was changed to The PNEU Journal. Joan Molyneux was editor...
PUS in Home Schoolroom
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The 21st Annual Conference of the PNEU featured an impressive lineup of speakers. Henrietta Franklin, Honorary Sec...
Meditation: Narration of the Heart
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason put a heavy emphasis on meditation for the parent and the child. This talk explores what she meant by meditation and looks deeply at t...
Our Three-fold Cord
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Nancy Kelly Some years ago, while meandering through the hushed archives of the Armitt Museum where so many of Charlotte Mason’s...
PNEU Notes
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The PNEU Notes section at the back of the March 1924 Parents’ Review contained a fascinating account of a confer...
A Year of PNEU
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff After only two years of teaching experience, Edward G. Bolton (1899–1964) became the headmaster of Barrowden Sch...
Professor Huxley and the PNEU
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The 1880s featured a public debate between two leading thinkers, both of whom were cited favorably by Charlotte Ma...
Stories That Last
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Influence of Learning from Lives Well-Lived The lives of others—both past and present—offer wisdom, courage, and faith for our own journeys. C...
The Other Side of All Doubt
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A well-worn path of knowing “… for we are on the other side of all doubt once we know Him in whom we have believed.” — Charlotte Mason, Parent...
Vitality
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hidden Force of a Charlotte Mason Education A Charlotte Mason education is different and stands alone among the educational philosophies of the wo...
Trusting the Method
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s face it: homeschooling is hard. As parent-educators, we want to prepare our children spiritually, mentally, and physically for the fullness of...
Games and Wet Day Occupations
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff On October 10, 1934, Cerise Parker gave a presentation to the Dublin branch of the PNEU.[1] Mrs. Parker was a memb...
Joy: Mainstay of a Living Education
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason said that “joy reigns in all our schoolrooms.” Do our schools reflect this joy or do we sabotage its presence, making our homes jo...
Art (Democracy and Taste)
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. Today we present the fourth and final article from the 1926 “Democracy and Taste” series, “Art” by Juliet Williams. By Juliet...
Nature Study (Democracy and Taste)
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1926 a PNEU meeting was held in connection with the Conference of Educational Associations to consider the subj...
Readers and Critics, Part II
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Felix Hope’s first “Readers and Critics” appeared in the March 1924 Parents’ Review. It ended with a promi...
Readers and Critics
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Felix Hope was a writer whose fascinating articles appeared in The Church Quarterly Review, The Parents’ Review,...
The PNEU Method in Sunday Schools
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Helen Wix was a House of Education graduate who played a significant role in the advancement of Charlotte Mason’...
The Week’s Message, by Charlotte Mason
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The Teacher’s World was a journal published in the first part of the last century. Originally it appeared as two...
Learning to Live
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“On my arrival at Ambleside I was interviewed by Miss Mason who asked me for what purpose I had come. I replied: ‘I have come to learn to teach.’...
Jane Austen
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina 2025 marks the 250th year of Jane Austen’s birth. In celebration, we are adding another article to our Jane Aus...
Conference at the House of Education
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1906 “the head of an important school” approached Charlotte Mason and suggested that she convene a conferen...
Easter Day
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The final Scale How Meditation to be published in Charlotte Mason’s lifetime appeared in the 1909 Parents’ Rev...
The War And The Children
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. This letter from Charlotte Mason was first published in The Times and then reprinted in the April 1915 issue of The Parents’ Review...
Escaping the Clutches of the Cadillac Course
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You might recall the homeschool product reviews the Andreola family wrote for a Christian catalog for 14 years (2000–2014). Who knew anything about ...
A Letter to the Children
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The final issue of Aunt Mai’s Budget opened with these lines: My dear Children,—This month I am very, very sad...
Prayer: Speech of the Soul
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Prayer is the key to open the day and the bolt to shut in the night.” — Jeremy Taylor, The Golden Key Did you know that Charlotte Mason talks a...
A Liberal Education for All (H. W. Household)
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff On January 23, 1918, a PNEU-sponsored meeting was held at the University College of London. The purpose was to dis...
Ask Art #6 — A Classical Education Perspective on Charlotte Mason
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In December and January, the Classical Et Cetera podcast of Memoria Press released a three-part series entitled “Charlotte Mason Explained: A Classi...
Things New and Old
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Claude Jenkins (1877–1959) was a Church of England clergyman and historian. He was Lambeth Librarian from 1910 t...
A Note on the Teaching of School Science
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Rhymer “There is, at the present time, a broad distinction made between science and the humanities.” — Dr. Telford Petr...
Imagination as a Powerful Factor in a Well-Balanced Mind
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Ellen Parish delivered this address at the PNEU Conference of 1914. At the time, she was the General Organizing Secretary of the PNEU...
The Teaching of History to Young Children
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Ellen Alice Parish (1869–1947) “devoted 34 years of her active life to forwarding the work of Charlotte M. Mas...
Should Children Reason?
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Barbara Webber was born in 1893 near London, and at age 17 her skill as a writer became known when her first short...
The Brontës
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina Scale How Evenings or Scale How Tuesdays were devised by Charlotte Mason for her teaching students at the House of...
The Cure of a Mental Habit
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The opening article of the eleventh issue of The Parents’ Review was entitled “Dorothy Elmore’s Achievement:...
“God with Us” as the Lost Tool of Education
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason & The Classical Tradition Revisited As conflicting modern ideas about education cast us about, many have dug into the very bedrock of ...
Seed Time
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. Today we share the ninth chapter of Children and the Stress of Life by Dr. Helen Webb. This chapter also appeared in the Parents’ R...
Early Influences
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1929, the PNEU published a small hardcover book entitled Children and the Stress of Life, composed of chapters ...
The Mystery of the Kingdom of God
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. Today we conclude our Advent series of sermons by Rev. Francis Lewis. See the December 10th episode for more information about this d...
Transfiguration or the Heavenly Vision
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. Today we continue our Advent series of sermons by Rev. Francis Lewis. See last week’s episode for more information about this dear ...
The Nobility of Work
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Rev. Francis Lewis was the headmaster of a grammar school in Ambleside for eighteen years. During this time he bec...
The Whole Teacher
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Joseph H. Allen was a Lancashire educationalist who lectured on educational topics and was also known for his serv...
Examinations and the PNEU
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff On August 14, 1913, Avice M. Cox became the wife of A. V. Cecil Moore.[1] Avice was a House of Education graduate ...
Citizenship and Literature
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Miss B. E. Moore was the headmistress of a girls’ elementary school “in one of London’s most needy districts...
Technology: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In most schools today, technology is king. All students are given tablets and everyone learns to code. We are told that this approach gives kids an ad...
Something About Morris and Country Dances, Part II
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Last week, Part I of this article was posted, so if you would like to read more about the history of Morris Dance ...
Something About Morris and Country Dances
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Why do we dance? Why was folk dance included in Charlotte Mason’s programmes? Why would an article which describ...
The Story of An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Charlotte Mason published her fifth volume in 1906, she seemed to have decided it was time to move on to other projects. With the publication of ...
The Art of Story-Telling
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Last week we shared Arthur Burrell’s “Recitation: The Children’s Art,” the ground-breaking 1890 article th...
Recitation: The Children’s Art
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The inaugural issue of The Parents’ Review appeared in February 1890. The second issue, published in March, cont...
A Programme for Sunday Reading
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Who aimeth at a star, Shoots higher, far, Than he who means a tree.” Charlotte Mason quotes this phrase from the poet George Herbert when describ...
The Charlotte Mason College
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The May 1952 “memories” issue of The Parents’ Review offered many vivid recollections of the early days and ...
From Charlotte Mason to College and Beyond
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2021 I interviewed Anesley Middlekauff when she had just completed her first semester at Iowa State University. We talked about the enormous t...
The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason (6 of 6)
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the November/December 1971 issue of The PNEU Journal, Joan L. Molyneux concluded her systematic overview of the...
The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason (5 of 6)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the September/October 1971 issue of The PNEU Journal, Joan L. Molyneux continued her systematic overview of the...
The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason (4 of 6)
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the July/August 1971 issue of The PNEU Journal, Joan L. Molyneux continued her systematic overview of the educa...
The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason (3 of 6)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the May/June 1971 issue of The PNEU Journal, Joan L. Molyneux continued her systematic overview of the educatio...
The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason (2 of 6)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the March/April 1971 issue of The PNEU Journal, Joan L. Molyneux continued her systematic overview of the educa...
The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason (1 of 6)
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Joan L. Molyneux (1908–1986) once wrote, “I have always lived within the sphere of influence of Charlotte Maso...
A Letter From E. C. Allen
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff E. C. Allen was a student at the House of Education from 1897–1898 where she interacted extensively with Charlot...
Poetry-Making
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why and How We Started Writing Poetry The word poetry can conjure up many thoughts and emotions in different people. Some remember with fondness a fav...
Guide, Philosopher, and Friend
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason wrote that the teacher’s “part is not the weariful task of spoon-feeding, but the delightful commerce of equal minds where his is ...
Memories of Scale How
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff After reading about the House of Education under the principalships of Ellen Parish and Joyce van Straubenzee, rea...
Charlotte Mason College Students in 1952
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1937, Essex Cholmondeley resigned from her position as the third principal of the House of Education. She was s...
Idyll Challenge V
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I recently received a text message from a fellow Charlotte Mason educator. “It’s interesting,” she wrote, “to meet another mom who is doing Ch...
Education in the Far-Flung Chain of the Empire
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tucked away in northwest England, Ambleside continues to represent the geographical heart of a Charlotte Mason education for many. The stunning landsc...
The House of Education Under Miss E. A. Parish
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff After an opening article by Henrietta Franklin, the “memories” issue of The Parents’ Review continued with a...
Memories of the Past
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The May 1952 issue of The Parents’ Review was dedicated to looking back. But this was no mere nostalgia or remin...
Habits at Home: A Conversation With Jennifer Pepito
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason wrote, “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.” In other words, “parents and teachers should know how to make sensibl...
A Modern-Day Olive Norton
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In January we ran a series of vintage articles by Olive Norton, a homeschool mother of the 1950s and ’60s who became the headmistress of a PNEU Scho...
The Boy Jesus
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff On November 23, 1897, the Rev. Herbert Spenser Swithinbank (1853–1937) gave an address to the Dulwich Branch of ...
How to Preserve the Imaginative Power in Children
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Readers of Charlotte Mason’s Home Education know the name Arthur Burrell from the chapter on recitation: “On t...
Can Appreciation of Art Be Taught?
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina Little could Charlotte Mason imagine that one day the Annual Conference of the PNEU would be held at the House of ...
Art Studies
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Charlotte Mason’s most obvious link to John Ruskin is found in her lengthy quotation from Mornings in Florence i...
Picture Study, by Mary Gillies
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Mary Gillies began her studies at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education in 1914. Six years later she joined the s...
Picture Study, by Madeline Lambert
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Madeline C. M. Lambert (1892–1965) arrived at the House of Education in 1912 where she learned the art of living...
Sunday School Teaching
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff As Charlotte Mason’s ideas become more and more popular in homeschools and other kinds of schools, an increasing...
An Uncommon Quarterly
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine what it would be like to have a quiet growing place for parents in a digitally saturated world. A place where parents and educators could be m...
Latin — the elegant Tongue
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Angela Reed The defense of Latin is a tradition almost as old as the language itself. In the modern era, one can find many passiona...
The Mind at Work
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1944, Essex Cholmondeley had not yet written her biography of Charlotte Mason, and she was no longer principal ...
The Disappearance of Difficulties
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Daisy Golding was the Headmistress of the Hanham Road Girls’ Elementary School in Bristol. In 1918, her school t...
Concerning Repeated Narration
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the fall of 1927, a headmistress wrote to Elsie Kitching to ask about a fine point in the practice of narration...
The Group System
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In the final pages of the December 1921 issue of The Parents’ Review, five paragraphs appeared under the heading...
Charlotte Mason’s Paradoxical Principle, Part 3
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Personhood Explored: The Atmosphere of Personhood This is the final article in a series on Charlotte Mason’s concept of personhood. The first articl...
Charlotte Mason’s Paradoxical Principle, Part 2
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Personhood Explored: The Discipline of Personhood This is the second article in a three-part series exploring Charlotte Mason’s concept of personhoo...
Charlotte Mason’s Paradoxical Principle, Part 1
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Personhood Explored: The Doctrine of Personhood From the time I was very young, I felt strongly that I was a person. I felt I was a unique individual,...