Charlotte Mason Poetry

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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(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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

Charlotte Mason and Your Heritage

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Art Middlekauff speaks with Amber Johnston of HeritageMom.com in which they discuss the relevance and application of Charlotte Mason’s ideas for...

Idyll Challenge 3

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Oxford defines an idyll as “an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one.”[1] It’...

Teaching Methods of Miss Charlotte Mason

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Editor’s Note: In 1921, H.W. Household was the Education Secretary for Gloucestershire, in which at least sixty-one schools[1] were following the C...

Principles Before Programmes

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Editor’s Note: The August 1928 issue of The Parents’ Review was devoted to the 37th annual report of the Parents’ National Educational Union. It...

A Walk in June

02 Jun 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 Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Editor’s Note: J. D. Rose worked in industry[1] until at some point in his life when he opted for a career change. He entered the Matlock College of...

The Teaching Of Geography, by R. A. Pennethorne

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull Rose Amy Pennethorne (1875-1955) studied at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education and graduated in 1898. After that sh...

The Story of Parents and Children

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

El artículo está disponible en español. We can only imagine how Charlotte Mason felt when she saw the positive response to her new book Home Educat...

A Walk in May

05 May 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...

Geography Using Map Questions

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

About three years ago, while looking through the curriculum programmes in the Charlotte Mason Digital Collection (CMDC), my attention was drawn to the...

The Teaching Of Geography

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull At the 31st Annual Conference of the PNEU, Captain Benjamin Dooley Parkin was asked to “state in general a few of the ...

Now That Dad Is Home

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At Charlotte Mason events over the years I’ve met many dads who say they do not help with the homeschooling. It is not uncommon for a dad to attend ...

A Walk in April

07 Apr 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...

Geography as a Means of Culture

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Editor’s Note: In September of 1886, Charlotte Mason had just finished the “Introductory” for the first edition of Home Education, writing from...