Charlotte Mason Poetry
Episodes
Ourselves: Nossos Corpos, Nossas Almas
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. “For to understand one human being so completely that you feel his feelings and think his...
Babies’ Habits
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The July 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review was called the “Baby Number.” Each article treated a different aspect of education ...
What Hands Are For
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To the world many of us, as homeschooling mothers, have stepped into the shadows. The focus of our lives, in this season, is raising and educating our...
A Walk in March
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: This week we continue our journey through The Changing Year with a walk in March. For more information on how to use this inspiring r...
Truth Telling
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grandma was visiting. (I’m Grandma.) I was staying at my daughter Sophia’s house. One misty morning she telephoned her husband when he was at work...
Brush Drawing
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina The autumn landscape was a riot of color as Michael Allenby and his governess, Katharine Loveday, moved stealthil...
My Scheduling Journey
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ice surfaces are a scarce resource, even in the Detroit area. Figure skaters compete with hockey skaters for access to this precious commodity. Junior...
A Walk in February
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Last month we shared the first chapter of Florence Haines’s The Changing Year, a book assigned in the PNEU programmes for many year...
Moral Instruction, by Charlotte Mason
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In September of 1908, educationalists from around the world were invited to present and discuss their views at the first Internationa...
The Method of Narration
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Rhymer Asking our children to narrate is deceptively hard. It seems like such a simple question: “Tell me what you heard.”...
A Walk in January
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In her final volume, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason summarized the nature work assigned to children of Form II: T...
The Story of “Home Education”
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
El artículo está disponible en español. In 1885, Charlotte Mason was a published author who had written several books on geography, but not on the ...
Life’s Decisions
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: One way that Charlotte Mason revolutionized education was by taking seriously the fact that a great portion of our thinking is “au...
A Visit to Winterland
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: From time to time I am asked about the place of creative writing in a Charlotte Mason education. It turns out that in the days of “...
The Religious Training of Children at Home
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: By the time the May, 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review went to print, planning for the upcoming “Baby Number” was well underway...
All Important Things
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the introduction to her devotional that accompanies the Gospel of John, Charlotte Mason penned these words: All important things are simple, and I ...
The Training of the Artistic Perception
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Maria Bell In 1896, the PNEU recommended a book which remains in publication today, A Manual of Clay-Modelling: “The instruction...
The Child in the Garden
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Agnes Smith was born in 1884[1] and graduated from the House of Education twenty years later.[2] She was active in the alum...
The Teaching of Mathematics to Young Children
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina In 1909, the ink barely dry on her diploma from the University of London, a young woman by the name of Irene Step...
Reading in the Nursery
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The July 1917 issue of The Parents’ Review was the “Baby Number,” dedicated to giving parents guidance for the early years. Cha...
From the Cell to the World
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A question I commonly hear from home educators (both men and women) is how to integrate spirituality with the mundane tasks of home and work life. The...
Nature in the Nursery
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Charlotte Mason wrote in Home Education that “At six or seven, definite lessons should begin.”[1] What then for children younger ...
Art and Handcraft
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1836, the Home and Colonial School Society established a teacher training school modeled after the ideas of Swiss educational refo...
Music Appreciation in the 21st Century
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my previous article I shared some reflections and conclusions from my research into music appreciation in the PNEU. Many of you do not need to be c...
The Teaching of Scripture
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: From time to time I am asked about apparent contradictions in Charlotte Mason’s writings. For example, we are told that narrations ...
Picture Study, by Marjorie Evans
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Marjorie Evans graduated from the House of Education in 1899.[1] Six years later her first article appeared in The Parent’s Review,...
How We Teach Citizenship
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Laura Faunce graduated from the House of Education in 1899. “Trained by Miss Mason herself, she made her principles her own and h...
How We Teach Geography
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Janet Smith graduated from the House of Education in 1911.[1] As a student there she met friends for life. In 1913 we find her at an ...
Our Principles
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: In May of 1922, the alumnae of the House of Education gathered in the Lake District for the Ambleside Old Students’ Association c...
A Physician’s Look at Charlotte Mason’s Views on Food
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Background This is the second article in my series on Charlotte Mason’s health recommendations. The first article was primarily focused on Mason’s...
The Mind of a Child
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: In 1917, England was at war. An important notice in the July issue of The Parents’ Review stated that due to wartime printing con...
Reflections on Music Appreciation
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My last article concluded a chronological progression of music appreciation in the PNEU from its conception in 1905 through the last half of the 20th ...
Musical Appreciation
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull Seventeen years after her inaugural music programme, and eleven years after she wrote her last programme in 1911, Mrs. E...
The Loyal Parent
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There is a quality that Charlotte Mason said “is our first duty and our last duty, and includes all our duties.” She said it “is the hall-mark o...
Early Drawing Lessons
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Lucy Gore attended the House of Education during its first decade. While there, she enjoyed nature walks under the guidance of M. L. ...
Habits for Life
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1890, Charlotte Mason wrote, “Is not physiology hurrying up with the announcement that to every man it is permitted to mould and modify his own b...
Ourselves
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1905, Charlotte Mason published the fourth volume of her Home Education Series and called it Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies. F...
Reminiscences
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: On November 26, 1948, the PNEU celebrated its Diamond Jubilee. Many great figures from the PNEU were present and spoke, including Hen...
On Teaching French To Young Children
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: In April, 1909, Charlotte Mason hosted the Fourth Students’ Conference at Scale How, which drew fifty-five former students of the ...
My Tongue’s Use
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Mrs. Dermod O’Brien was the President of the Dublin Branch of the PNEU for many years. In the January 1943 issue of The Parents’ ...
The Place of Habit
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In Charlotte Mason circles today, we sometimes hear the claim that Miss Mason retracted or even recanted some of her beliefs about t...
A Tradition of Music Appreciation
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In my first and second articles, I traced the history of music appreciation in the PNEU from its commencement in 1905 all the way to 1924, the year af...
Nature Note Books
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Agnes Drury, Charlotte Mason’s trusted colleague, was the inspector of nature notebooks at the House of Education from 1939 until h...
Ask Art #4 – The Spirit and the Letter
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A listener asked, “If Charlotte wanted us to rely most of all on the Holy Spirit for guidance, why was she so specific (e.g. the timetables etc.)? I...
Opinions and Principles
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. Editor’s note: On November 15, 1909, the faithful of the Parents’ National Education Un...
Music Appreciation in the PNEU
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Music appreciation changed over time in the PNEU due to various personal, historical, and technological influences, but still maintained certain impor...
Music
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull Charlotte Mason met Mrs. Glover’s “musical baby” in 1895 during a visit to London. In that same year a ground-brea...
Sunday Schools
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1903, F. Noël Armfield wrote a letter to the editor of The Parents’ Review stating: I would like to mention that an active i...
A Journey in Musical Appreciation
23 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My introduction to Charlotte Mason was similar to many of you who started homeschooling before the current era of blogs and podcasts. Ten years ago a ...
Our Relations with Music and Art
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Dawn Tull In 1949 Henrietta Franklin spoke on the history of the PNEU during the Diamond Jubilee celebration. She reflected on the...
Ask Art #3 – Scaffolding
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is scaffolding? Does it mean one thing in some educational circles and something else in Charlotte Mason educational circles? Is there anything ...
Narration the Charlotte Mason Way
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1924, H.W. Household visited several PNEU schools and found that narration was not being conducted the Charlotte Mason way. To co...
Ask Art #2 – What Happened?
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From time to time, people ask, “What happened to the PNEU?” There is usually more than just idle curiosity behind the question. The asker is ofte...
How We Teach Literature
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. Editor’s Note: In May of 1913, Daphne Chaplin was among five former students of the Hous...
Supplies for Nature Notebooking
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of original articles by Nicole Handfield on the topic of keeping a nature notebook. In my first article...
The Object of Faith
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Charlotte Mason wrote: Well did our Lord say: ‘I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.’ The pity of it is that He, the ...
A Physician’s Look at Charlotte Mason’s Views
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I fear the reader may be inclined to think that I am inviting his attention for the most part to a few physiological matters—the lowest round of the...
The Teaching Methods of Charlotte Mason and the PNEU
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In July of 1931, educators from around the world converged on Belford, England to discuss the topic of “Education in a Changing Em...
Ask Art #1 – Creative Writing
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years, I have had the privilege to sit on “question and answer” panels at Charlotte Mason retreats and events. Many of the questions I’...
Parents and Education, by Charlotte Mason
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1887, the year after the publication of Home Education, Charlotte Mason was invited to lecture at a meeting of the British Associ...
Nature Study, by Agnes Drury
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 1913, Agnes Drury was in charge of the scientific work at the House of Education, and Alfred Thornley was the inspector of natu...
The Strait Gate
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Mary Hardcastle (1901-1964) spent her entire life under the umbrella of the PNEU. As a child, she attended a PNEU class taught by R.A...
Sharing the Effort To Know
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Teaching is not a technique exercised by the skilled on behalf of the unskilled. It is a sharing of the effort to know, using all that is best in t...
How to Keep a Nature Note-Book
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Charlotte Mason began the House of Education in 1892, and by 1893 the teacher-students were already keeping nature notebooks. The fi...
Twice Blessed
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Today we are pleased to share chapter 6 of the new book by Karen Andreola entitled Mother Culture – For a Happy Homeschool. This ex...
Christmas Poems
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Merry Christmas from the Charlotte Mason Poetry team! Today we have something special to help focus your attention on Christ during t...
First Reading Lessons
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Barbara and I made the decision to homeschool, we agreed that we would divide the teaching activities between us. I felt an overall sense of resp...
The Teaching of Nature Study
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Violet C. Curry was born in 1892 and enrolled in the House of Education in 1911. Her early interest in nature was evidenced by an ins...
Waiting for the Light
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. – Isaiah 9:2 (KJV) Our family has approached the season of Advent intentionally over the...
Nature Notebook Phases
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of original articles by Nicole Handfield on the topic of keeping a nature notebook. When I started lea...
Characteristics of a PNEU School
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. Editor’s Note: Charlotte Mason defined her Short Synopsis in 1904. We typically refer to...
Sermons on Faith
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Chapter 13 of Charlotte Mason’s Parents and Children is a lengthy exposition of Henry Beeching’s Eleven Sermons on Faith. This c...
Growing Up with Charlotte Mason
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: At the 2018 Charlotte Mason Living Retreat, I spoke on the topic of “How to Learn the Charlotte Mason Method.” In that talk, I s...
Of Punishments
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Edith Escombe (1866–1950) was a writer of stories and essays who contributed many articles to The Parents’ Review. A collection of her articles wa...
The Sacrament of Education
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is education scientific or is it sacred? Is it physical or spiritual? Pragmatic or ideal? Listen to Art Middlekauff’s synthesis of Charlotte Mason’...
The Spirit and the Letter
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Rose Amy Pennethorne (1875-1955) studied at Charlotte Mason’s House of Education and graduated in 1898. She then “had several p...
The Origin of Ideas
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Not so very long ago, I was in the car with my six-year old when he asked, “Did God make that truck?” “Nope. But God made the people who made th...
A Liberal Education
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: On January 5, 1929, six years after Charlotte Mason’s death, Horace West Household spoke at the The North of England Education Co...
Building Without Scaffolds
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
June was a big month for me: it was my first time teaching a workshop about the Charlotte Mason method. I was the local hostess for the Charlotte Maso...
The Meeting
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet: This is not done by jostling in the street.” —William Blake. By Elsie Kitching The Parents’...
The God of Living Ideas
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An Exploration of the Religious Philosophy of Charlotte Mason A paper submitted to Dr. James Moore in fulfillment of the requirements for the Educa...
Ruminating on Recitation
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Situated on Chambersburg Street, a main thoroughfare of historic Gettysburg, is a nineteenth-century church that is home to the sorts of gatherings we...
Education for the Kingdom (Part 5 of 5)
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: I am pleased today to share the final essay in our series by Dr. Benjamin Bernier, read to us so engagingly by musician Greg Rolling....
Education for the Kingdom (Part 4 of 5)
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Today we share the fourth in a series of five essays from 2017. This episode explains that the core of Charlotte Mason’s philoso...
Education for the Kingdom (Part 3 of 5)
29 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Today’s episode is the third in a series of five essays from 2017 which demonstrate that Charlotte Mason’s educational philosop...
Education for the Kingdom (Part 2 of 5)
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Today we share the second in a series of five essays from 2017 which demonstrate that Charlotte Mason’s educational philosophy can...
Education for the Kingdom (Part 1 of 5)
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: In the early months of 2017, Dr. Benjamin Bernier wrote a series of five original essays to demonstrate that Charlotte Mason’s edu...
A Devoted Life
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, the wonder of finding a kindred spirit—how we treasure that person in our heart and how they have a way of recognizing and drawing out our poten...
A Journey with “The Scarlet Letter”
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
My name is Anesley Middlekauff. I am 15 years old and have been homeschooled with Charlotte Mason my whole life. I am the daughter of Art and Barbara ...
Christian Conflict with the Inklings
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I am a huge fan of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. But I knew little of their writing group, the Inklings, until I read the book Bandersnatch. Had it ...
Into God’s Out-of-doors
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that keeping a nature notebook has the power to awaken your senses, to teach you how to truly see things that you may have “seen” in ...
How to Learn the Charlotte Mason Method
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I know of two ways to learn the Charlotte Mason: the way I learned it, and a better way. You don’t have to make the same mistakes I made. Listen in ...
The Atmosphere of Education
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“What is the most precious thing to have in a house?” Charlotte Mason poses this question at the dinner table one evening. She gleans answers from...
Applying an Authentic Interpretation
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I didn’t know her name. I only knew her question. She wrote it anonymously on a piece of paper, a question for the “experts.” We were wrapping ...
Idyll Challenge 2.0
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Just over two years ago, I first read the article “Three Educational Idylls,” by Charlotte Mason. Published in 1912, it reveals many profound thou...
Mason’s Program for Bible Lessons
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason wrote, “Now our objective in this most important part of education is to give the children the knowledge of God.” Mason did not ap...
The Sacredness of the Person
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In April of 1930, the Ambleside Old Students’ Association held their biennial conference at Scale How in Ambleside. The conferenc...
The Value of Manual Training in Education
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Roger N. Goodman (1863-1941) was a practicing medical doctor who served patients out of his own house. He was also an avid educatio...
Highest Thinking and Simplest Living
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In 2017, Simplicity was the theme for the Living Education Retreat. I didn’t attend, but I did get to hear Mary Beuving’s recorde...
A Few Remarks on Music Teaching, Part I
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Mr. W. Henry Leslie, choral director, judge, and music educator wrote an important Parents’ Review article in 1...