Charlotte Mason Poetry
Episodes
On Questions and Questioning
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A Charlotte Mason education is, for most of us, a radical shift in thinking. We are educating in a way we ourselves have not experienced. Though we ad...
From an Ordinary Mother’s View Point
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Paul Hughes: In 1929, the PNEU branch in Melbourne, Australia met to hear the words not of a great educationalist, but of an ordi...
Miss Mason’s Message to the Children
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Tessa Keath: In June of 1915, World War I had been underway for almost a year. Charlotte Mason wanted to speak to the children abo...
Nature Notebooks in the 21st Century
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When I first started learning about Charlotte Mason, I realized pretty quickly that nature study was important. If I was going to attempt a Charlotte ...
Nature Study, by Christine Cooper
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Nicole Williams: Many people seek a Charlotte Mason education for their children because of nature study. They know intuitively th...
Number: A Figure and a Step Onward
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: In October of 2017, we shared our first Parents’ Review article by Irene Stephens, entitled “Mathematics.” In the Editor’s N...
A Programme for Plutarch
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason (1989b) derides “nice little history books for children” that are mere outlines or childish retellings (p. 278). The formidable Pl...
The Montessori System
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: On December 3, 1912, The Times Educational Supplement published a letter entitled, “Miss Mason on the Montessori System.” The ...
Towards an Authentic Interpretation
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At Charlotte Mason Poetry, our goal is to promote an authentic interpretation of Charlotte Mason’s writings. What do we mean by an “authentic inte...
What Worked Fifty Years Ago
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“What worked even fifty years ago will not work to-day, and what fulfils our needs to-day will not serve fifty years hence; there is no last word to...
What Would Charlotte Do?
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cet article est également disponible en français. On January 16, 1923, Charlotte Mason entered the next life. I can only suppose that the very next ...
Learning Styles and Charlotte Mason
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Way-back-when, I remember being confronted with the topic of Learning Styles. It was a popular conference talk. It popped up in home school magazines....
What I Owe to The Classics
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
By H. W. Household The Parents’ Review, 1930, pp. 631-638 When I read in the August number of the the report of Mrs. Mary Hamilton’s delightful ad...
Wading in the Shallows
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I always thought I had a pretty good education. That is, until I met Charlotte Mason. It was like a whole new world was suddenly revealed to me. I had...
Miss Mason’s Methods of Teaching in Practice
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Horace West Household was the Secretary for Education of Gloucestershire County in 1916 when he first encountered Charlotte Mason’s theory of educ...
A Look and Gesture of Delight
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I’m an anxious father. Many nature walks with my young boys (ages 2 and 5) have degenerated into tension-filled treks through the woods, devoid of j...
The National Mission
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Nicole Williams In the Autumn of 1916, the Church of England issued a proclamation in response to the low morale of the nation due...
Charlotte Mason and the Educational Tradition
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Overman wrote, “Ideas do make a difference! And significant ideas cast much longer shadows than do the men or women who originally think t...
From Classical Teacher to Charlotte Mason Educator
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“… things I had never heard before… a radical change of the way I thought… It was totally different, totally new, totally amazing, and life-ch...
The Fragmentation of Culture
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: In 1923, Dorothy Sayers introduced the fictional character of Lord Wimsey in her very first mystery novel. She went on to write man...
Tools for You
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Charlotte Mason published Home Education in 1886, she began a chain reaction. First came the Parent’s Educational Union in 1887, which rapidl...
How the PUS Helps a Young Mother
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: “Education is a Life, but if we are to train others we must train ourselves.” What a terrifying realization. Everything about th...
On Distraction
02 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout my schoolgirl days I loved getting back to school in the fall. Not because I was looking forward to seeing my friends (I changed schools ne...
How Past Students Can Keep In Touch
26 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: Aspiring educators came to the House of Education in Ambleside to learn the Charlotte Mason method. Once there, they experienced a d...
A Look in the Mirror
19 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“If I stopped reading the Bible, I sometimes wonder if anyone would notice.” The statement caught me off guard and took me back a step. It flew in...
Mother Culture
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“Is there, then, not need for more ‘Mother Culture’?” -A In April of 1892, the readers of The Parents’ Review were treated to a most myster...
The Nativity
05 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: The December, 1910 issue of The Parents’ Review featured a two-part article by Charlotte Mason. The first part was an Advent dev...
A Programme for Shakespeare
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, I experienced Shakespeare at the Globe Theater in London. At that point, I had been teaching Shakespeare to students for over 20 years as par...
From Urbanite to Conservationist
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When I happened upon Charlotte Mason and became determined to understand the philosophy, I quickly found out it would not be a week-long crash course ...
Women Must Weep
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: On August 4, 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany, and in so doing, entered the world’s first Great War. By December of 1915...
A Dangerous Adventure
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Mason’s method helps us to discover the beauty that is all around us. But does her method help us when beauty cannot be found? This is th...
The Reception of Volume 6
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In my previous article, The Truth About Volume 6, I concluded that Volume 6 was meant to complement the other volumes, not to replace or supersede the...
How to Safeguard the Love of Learning
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: My first introduction into the world of Charlotte Mason was not through For the Children’s Sake, like I know it was for many other...
Charlotte Mason and the SAT
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I trusted the method. I bought the story that education was for life, not for a job, or a college, or a test score. And I bought the other part of the...
Mathematics
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Over the past month, we have shared Richele Baburina’s series of articles on how physics can be part of a living education. On Oct...
The Teacher of Physics
10 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: This article is the third in a series on the teaching of physics by Richele Baburina, author of Mathematics: An Instrument for Living...
Charlotte Mason’s Call to Parents
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This essay was first published in Essays on the Life and Work of Charlotte Mason, Volume 2, published by Riverbend Press. ©2015 by the Charlotte...
Childhood’s Estate
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note. In the Armitt Museum, one may request to see an overstuffed box containing a collection of handwritten documents penned by Charlott...
A Letter Towards Sunday School with Charlotte Mason
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For quite a while I have been thinking about what it would look like to bring Charlotte Mason’s philosophy into Sunday School. When my pastor called...
Education is the Science of Relations
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach As I mentioned in my previous article, Musical Drill Pr...
Musical Drill Practices
26 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In my last post we looked at how Mason developed her principles of education regarding rhythmic movement from special and general revelation. To devel...
Miss Mason’s Ideal: Its Breadth and Balance
21 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. Editor’s note: Helen Wix graduated from Charlotte Mason’s House of Education in 1903, b...
Living Lessons in Physics
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: This article is the second in a series on the teaching of physics by Richele Baburina, author of Mathematics: An Instrument for Livin...
Rhythm In Music
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Charlotte Mason valued music as a significant part of “the feast.” The two main components of musical trainin...
Worship, War, and Musical Drill
12 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Rhythmic movement and sound can be observed all around you in the ticking of a clock, the daily movement of the sun, the marching of a band, and the c...
The Teaching Methods of Charlotte Mason
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Este artigo também se encontra disponível em Português. El artículo está disponible en español. Editor’s note: In 1902, George F. Husband left...
Physics the Charlotte Mason Way
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series on the teaching of physics by Richele Baburina, author of Mathematics: An Instrument for Livin...
Trop de Zèle
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: In the April, 1914 issue of The Parents’ Review, Charlotte Mason introduced the PNEU to Rudolf Eucken (1846-1926). Mason knew the...
Smart About Your Wool
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My family and I are Charlotte Mason newbies, as in, I just finished my first month of implementing her philosophy. We are new, but we are in love with...
A Principle in the Practices
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It is commonly known that Charlotte Mason left twenty principles as a compass to keep teachers on a steady course toward the right objective, but Maso...
Tinkers
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: I have a confession to make. I don’t really know what I’m doing. I have read Miss Mason’s books and studied many Parents’ Rev...
Lessons of Rush-Bearing
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: When Charlotte Mason was laid to rest in the grounds of her home church of St. Mary’s in Ambleside, the Rev. Francis Lewis assiste...
Nothing Is Trivial
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Authority… is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler; she is in touch with the children, knows their unspoken scheme...
Manual Training
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Editor’s Note: Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) devoted her life to the underprivileged children of England. In 1894, she was elected to the Bradford...
Teaching Cardboard Sloyd
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After discussing the principles of sloyd in my first article, we looked at how to begin paper sloyd in Forms 1b and 1a. My previous article ended wi...
Teaching Paper Sloyd
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When we last talked about sloyd, we explored the principles to be employed while teaching it. This article assumes that the reader understands the pr...
A Mother Without a Governess
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
South India By Mrs. Senior The Parents’ Review, 1919, pp. 303-307 Editor’s Note: Many of the teachers-in-training at the House of Education were ...
The Living Principles of Sloyd
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Reading through Charlotte Mason’s six volumes, you will rarely come across the word “sloyd,” but if you look through the archives you will find...
The Mediocre Purist
22 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cet article est également disponible en français, traduit par Un festin d’idées. G.K. Chesterton has famously said, “if a thing is worth doing,...