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Back to SearchHighest Thinking and Simplest Living
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 recorded tal…
7 years, 9 months ago
A Few Remarks on Music Teaching, Part I
Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Mr. W. Henry Leslie, choral director, judge, and music educator wrote an important Parents’ Review article in 1926,…
7 years, 9 months ago
On Questions and Questioning
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 a…
7 years, 9 months ago
From an Ordinary Mother’s View Point
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 ordina…
7 years, 9 months ago
Miss Mason’s Message to the Children
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 abou…
7 years, 10 months ago
Nature Notebooks in the 21st Century
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…
7 years, 10 months ago
Nature Study, by Christine Cooper
Editor’s Note, by Nicole Williams: Many people seek a Charlotte Mason education for their children because of nature study. They know intuitively tha…
7 years, 10 months ago
Number: A Figure and a Step Onward
Editor’s note: In October of 2017, we shared our first Parents’ Review article by Irene Stephens, entitled “Mathematics.” In the Editor’s Note, we hi…
7 years, 10 months ago
A Programme for Plutarch
Charlotte Mason (1989b) derides “nice little history books for children” that are mere outlines or childish retellings (p. 278). The formidable Pluta…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Montessori System
Editor’s note: On December 3, 1912, The Times Educational Supplement published a letter entitled, “Miss Mason on the Montessori System.” The followin…
7 years, 11 months ago