Charlotte Mason Poetry
Episodes
Nursery Games For Children
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Lady Hankey’s “introduction to the P.N.E.U. was the discovery of Miss Mason’s book Home Education, and this happened when [her]...
The Great Recognition Mason Brought To Florence
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the story. A young, impressionable Miss Mason travels to Florence. With guidebook in hand, she beholds a glorious fresco, the embodiment o...
Pestalozzi: The First Modern Educator
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: When Charlotte Mason famously wrote in Home Education that “Mothers owe ‘a thinking love’ to their Children,”[1] she was quot...
The Approach to Poetry
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Karen Andreola’s 1998 A Charlotte Mason Companion introduced a generation of parents to the Charlotte Mason philosophy. Her encyclo...
Living Memories of Emeline Steinthal: An Interview
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Richele Baburina speaks with the great-granddaughter of Emeline Steinthal, Charlotte Mason’s dear friend and colleague, who brings the PNEU to life ...
Religious Teaching in the Home
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Mary Alice Douglas (1860–1941) was the daughter of a rector and was “educated at home by a governess in [a] tight-knit, deeply re...
Susan Schaeffer Macaulay Interviews Joan Molyneux
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1984, Susan Schaeffer Macaulay published her groundbreaking book For the Children’s Sake. For many of us, it was our first introduction to the Ch...
My Experience with Charlotte Mason in Sunday School
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During most of the past six years I have volunteered helping with the pre-school and elementary aged children at our church. Although our church famil...
Influence
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina Without the influence of Emeline Steinthal, the Parents’ National Education Union might never have come to be. A...
Do Charlotte Mason’s Ideas Still Work?
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“When Miss Mason was alive, for example, children were instinctively more obedient and respectful than they are today.”[1] As I have studied Charl...
The Teaching of Citizenship
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. The first article I ever read by House of Education graduate Eleanor Frost is her 1913 “Bible Teaching in The Parents’ Union Scho...
The Source of Miss Mason’s Teaching
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What was Charlotte Mason’s source for her philosophy of education? It is a question that I have discussed and debated at length over the past severa...
Education is a Discipline
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The PNEU motto was “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life.”[1] This motto encapsulated what Charlotte Mason saw as...
Managing Multiple Forms
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: One of the most common questions we hear is how to handle a homeschool situation where there are multiple children in multiple forms....
A Few Remarks on Music Teaching, Part II
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Our author, W.H. Leslie, wrote Part II of this article and it was included in a later printing of The Parents’ R...
Charlotte Mason’s First Principle
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first principle of Charlotte Mason’s twenty-point synopsis reads simply, “Children are born persons.” Comprised of only four words, it’s ...
Children Are Born Persons
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff “Children are born persons” is a phrase that is inseparably associated with Charlotte Mason. It may be surpris...
Meditation by Charlotte Mason
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Back in August of 2020, we shared “The Story of Scale How Meditations,” which describes how Charlotte Mason’s 1898 reflections ...
Bible Lessons FAQ (Part 2)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason developed a program and method for Bible lessons for children from ages 6 to 18 that is breathtaking in its simplicity, elegance, and ...
Bible Teaching In The P.N.E.U.
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In July 1919, Charlotte Mason wrote to her House of Education graduates. Her letter included this note: We must not forget either, ou...
Bible Lessons FAQ
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When speaking of Bible lessons, Charlotte Mason writes, “Now our objective in this most important part of education is to give the children the kno...
Nature Study In The Home
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina The scene of a country vicar collecting insects among the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest might make you think you...
A Year in Review — 1922
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The 24th Annual Conference of the PNEU was held at the House of Education in Ambleside in 1922. It was the first time the conference ...
The New and Old Conceptions of Knowledge
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1912, Charlotte Mason wrote a series of seven letters to The Times Educational Supplement. The letters were published under the ge...
Knowledge and Narration
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Have you ever corresponded with someone so often that you felt you knew the person, even though you’d never met? That’s how Charl...
Advent and Time
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Although I grew up in a liturgical church with the changing seasons (Advent, Christmas, Epiphany into Ordinary Time, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and then...
A Philosophy of Education Restated
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Doreen Russo was educated at the Charlotte Mason College, formerly the House of Education. She later described how this training left...
Music In The Nursery
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull As part of the special “Baby Number” edition of the Parents’ Review issued in July 1917, Mrs. Howard (Ella) Glover...
The Teaching of Drawing
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina An artist awakens with a start to the bright glow enveloping her London studio. She rushes to the window and can b...
Maria Montessori and the Classical Tradition
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you think of when you hear the word Montessori? Perhaps you imagine a room specifically designed for children, with small carpets and special ...
The Charm of Nature Study
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Geraldine Downton was a student at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education in the late 1920s.[1] She took a special interest in nature...
High School at Home with Charlotte Mason
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many homeschoolers are inspired by Charlotte Mason’s emphasis on nature study, living books, and narration. However, it can be difficult to envision...
Children Up To School Age and Beyond (Continued)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. In February of 1943, readers of The Parents’ Review were able to read the second part of Elsie Kitching’s monumental “Children ...
Cultivating a Divine Education with Charlotte Mason
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I first encountered the philosophy of Charlotte Mason when my oldest child was just three years old. We joined a book club studying A Charlotte Mason ...
Children Up To School Age and Beyond
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The December 1926 issue of The Parents’ Review was entitled “Of Little Children”[1] and was arranged at the special request of ...
I Tried Charlotte Mason’s Schedule for 30 Days
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I was a mess. Between the global pandemic, a cross-country real estate search, getting our house listed, sold, and the subsequent move, all sense of n...
The Teaching Of English
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The name G. H. Smith may be familiar to readers of In Memoriam. His contribution to that 1923 volume is entitled “Elementary School...
A Physician’s Look at Charlotte Mason’s Views on Air and Exercise
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The goal of this article is to conclude my three-part series examining Charlotte Mason’s views on health. So far we’ve covered skin disease, food,...
Physical Culture
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Leaflet H of the Parents’ Union School enumerated nine rules for mothers implementing Charlotte Mason’s method at home. Rule #7 s...
From Tired to Inspired
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was the end of the school year and I was drowning. I was overwhelmed and miserable, and that misery often stared back at me during our school hours...
Simplicity
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
(A Bible Study) by Charlotte Mason The Parents’ Review, 1898, pp. 46-54 In the course of our Scale How Bible Readings in St. Luke’s Gospel, we cam...
The Story of “Ourselves”
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Readers of the January 1901 issue of The Parents’ Review were treated to a new article by Charlotte Mason entitled “Ourselves, Our Souls, And Bodi...
Neglected Nature
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Rose Amy Pennethorne (1875-1955) studied at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education and graduated in 1898. After that she “had sev...
On First Reading Charlotte Mason’s Books
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Dr. Jack Beckman, in his monumental 2003 dissertation entitled “Lessons to Learn,” describes a change that took place in the Char...
The Role of Knowledge in Moral Development
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The moral development of children: it’s what motivates many parents to homeschool in the first place. But if that’s the goal, how do we achieve it...
Charlotte Mason and the Philosophy of Science
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What role does observational science play in your philosophy of education? John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), the “father of modern teaching,”[1] bro...
Classical Meets Charlotte Mason
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The debate between Charlotte Mason and classical education has been going on for years. Does it really make a difference whether Mas...
The Nature Work at the House of Education
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Agnes Drury was in charge of the scientific work at the House of Education, and she had a particular delight in nature study and natu...
The Perfect Charlotte Mason Education
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When people first hear about the Charlotte Mason method, many decide they want to try it out. They start small, with a few elements such as nature stu...
Religious Training In The Home
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The August 1906 issue of The Parents’ Review closed with a preview of what was coming next: “The September number of the Parents’...
A Modern Take on Scouting
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Scouting is one of the Charlotte Mason subjects that caught my imagination as soon as I heard of it. It seemed to combine everything I wish I had been...
Scouting
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Nicole Williams In The Story of Charlotte Mason, Essex Cholmondeley wrote: Another choice is an instance of Miss Mason’s unders...
Homeschooling and Socialization
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone remembers the good times they had in school, and while the setting may be different for each party or hangout time, the one thing that remain...
On The Teaching Of Religion To Children
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In the September 1909 issue of The Parents’ Review, Charlotte Mason wrote: The Editor is taking the opportunity of the summer month...
The Best Atlas for You
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People frequently ask, “Which atlas or map should I use?” This is a very personal choice and is therefore difficult to answer. Rather than suggest...
The Parents’ Union School
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Parents’ Review, 1912, pp. 492-510 By Miss C. M. Mason It is a great pleasure to me to meet, if not in the flesh, then in the spirit, people wit...
Teaching Tech
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Several years ago I attended a Charlotte Mason conference that included a special event: a craft display. Attendees were encouraged to bring sample ob...
Practical Carrying Out
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Miss E. Bruce Low graduated from the House of Education and then travelled to India to begin teaching. There she met two other House ...
Jane Austen by Charlotte Mason
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina Charlotte Mason’s personal reading rotation often included one of Jane Austen’s novels, which were also among...
Reverence in Action
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A mother contacted me a few months ago because her Form 1B student was enjoying everything in the program except Bible lessons. She asked for my advic...
The Story of a Home Schoolroom
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In March 1930, the PNEU hosted its 32nd annual conference in London. While most of the speakers were either PNEU leaders, school admi...
Reverence in Lessons
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In my first article in this series, I highlighted a quality that Charlotte Mason said should accompany “all our teaching of children”: reverence. ...
The Reading Habit And A Wide Curriculum
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By Miss C. M. Mason The Parents’ Review, 1913, pp. 561-572 The curriculum of the child is the provision for the man. “Do as you like,” is the ne...
All Our Teaching of Children
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Knowledge awakens. It’s the inspiring, startling, audacious claim of Charlotte Mason, a claim that’s at the heart of her method. “We know that r...
A Jane Austen Evening
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Richele Baburina Scale How Tuesdays were a special time of enjoyment conceived by Charlotte Mason for her teaching students at the ...
The Story of The Counties of England
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
English children should have such a familiar and intimate knowledge of the geography of their own country as would make a railway journey a delight; a...
On Learning Geography
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull It can be difficult for students to comprehend ideas which they cannot physically see in person. What means does the tea...
From Charlotte Mason to College
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many parents get interested in the Charlotte Mason method when their children are young, and they wonder what happens when children educated in this m...
Spiritual Joy
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Mary Charlotte (Carta) Sturge was born in 1852 and earned a degree in moral science at the University of Cambridge. She was a frequen...
My Latin Journey
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elsewhere I have told the story of how I learned about a medieval saint from Amy Steedman’s In God’s Garden. In the months and years that followed...
The Teaching of Latin
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note by Angela Reed On a stormy day in 1938, a crowd gathered under a canopy on the grounds of Burgess Hill School in West Sussex (about fo...
The Teaching of Chemistry
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason introduced her philosophy at a time when education in England was in a state of flux. From the early years of the PNEU to the last day...
Knowledge Versus Information
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1944, Horace West Household was 74 years old. He had retired from his role as Secretary for Education of Gloucestershire County eight years before...
Episode 200
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today is a huge milestone for the Charlotte Mason Poetry team. It’s our two hundredth podcast episode! Can you believe it? It seems like only yester...
The Story of School Education
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason had just completed her November 1896 dedication of Parents and Children when she began exploring other topics in The Parents’ Review...
Emmanuel, the Key to Our Hope
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a time of great confusion: meaning and fact, history and truth have become separated. As the poet W.B. Yeats wrote of the world in the time...
Conference Lessons
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In June of 1915, the PNEU held its 19th annual conference. This conference promised an interesting feature: The morning of June 15th ...
School Discipline
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: One of the great joys for me of the past four and a half years has been the opportunity to lead the Idyll Challenge discussion groups...
A Walk In December
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence H...
Charlotte Mason And Gloucestershire
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In May of 1927, the 29th annual conference of the PNEU was held in Gloucestershire, England. The conference featured a wide range of ...
The Badge And The Motto
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This article was first published in the 1932 Parents’ Review. It was republished in 1940 and 1956. Here we share the 1956 version....
Spelling by Dictation
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I discovered Charlotte Mason pretty early in my twenty-year homeschool journey. My firstborn had learned to read and write, but spelling was not yet o...
A Walk In November
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence H...
A Living Education in Brazil
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Translated by Tina Schallhorn My name is Lizie Henrique and I live in Brazil. I was born here, so Portuguese is my mother language. When my husband an...
On The Teaching Of Poetry To Children
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Amber Johnston Poetry is difficult to define, but in a Parents’ Review article from 1908, M. H. Simpson attempts to do just that...
Charlotte Mason and the Millennium
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The first time I ever spoke at a Charlotte Mason event was the 2008 Living Education Retreat. I thought I did pretty well, but I wasn’t sure I would...
A Walk In October
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence H...
When Did You Start To Enjoy History?
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When I’m trying to explain the Charlotte Mason method to friends and co-workers, this is a common question I ask. The question itself makes two assu...
Conference on PNEU Methods
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1917, H.W. Household introduced the Charlotte Mason method to the schools of Gloucestershire County. He started small, with only f...
Math for Older Students
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One autumn afternoon, I (Richele) was in the kitchen when my teen breezed in and grabbed an apple. He paused on his way out the door and said, “Hey,...
Some Experiences of a Pioneer School
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Emeline Steinthal was with Charlotte Mason at the start of the PNEU in 1887, and three decades later she was still supporting her fri...
A Walk In September
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence H...
The Story of Scale How Meditations
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1861, a nineteen-year-old was starting her first full-time job. She had just moved and was by all accounts feeling overwhelmed by her new set of re...
The Promises of Poetry
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I consider myself an ardent follower of Charlotte Mason’s principles, and sheepishly, I confess that I have been known to audibly react as she reach...
On the Teaching of Poetry
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Amber Johnston In January 1919, a writer identified only as M. A. W. wrote an article for the Parents’ Review addressing how and...
A Walk in August
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence H...
A Living Education in France
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Antonella Greco speaks with Maeva Kosse of Charlotte Mason France about applying Charlotte Mason’s philosophy to the French homeschooling milieu. ...
Teaching Children to Pray
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The August 1906 issue of The Parents’ Review announced that the next month’s issue would “be devoted to the subject of Religiou...
Scripture Teaching
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Helen Emma Wix was a “torch-bearing”[1] graduate of Charlotte Mason’s House of Education. She was born in 1882 in Sydney, Austr...
A Walk in July
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year. For more information on how to use this inspiring resource by Florence H...