“Our aim in education is to give a full life.”
Charlotte Mason

Who was Charlotte Mason?

Read a brief introduction about Charlotte Mason and her educational methods.

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Where can I read her writing?

Charlotte Mason's six volume Original Homeschooling Series has been transcribed and made available at AmblesideOnline along with Parents' Review articles, her school programmes and exams as well as many other resources.

Where can I find community?

You can search for a Charlotte Mason community in your area.

Where can I find a proven curriculum?

AmblesideOnline is the definitive Charlotte Mason curriculum used by thousands of families and educators around the world.

About Charlotte Mason Education

Charlotte Mason threw a door wide open to the public over one hundred years ago conveying her magnanimous ideas on education in ways that have had a profound effect on the way children learn. Those ideas have gained fresh interest in our modern lives as parents continue seeking a better way to educate their children, a way that treats them as a person created in the image of God. 

This site is an attempt to honor Charlotte Mason’s heartfelt passion to “throw open for public use” her ideas and methods for all who care to seek it. 

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It is not enough that there should be a Beauty World always within reach; we must see to it that our Beauty Sense is on the alert and kept quick to discern. We may easily be all our lives like that man of whom the poet says:––


"A primrose by the river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
was that, and nothing more"


–that is, he missed the subtle sense of Beauty which lay, not so much in the primrose nor in the river, but, rather, in the fact of the primrose growing just there. Our great danger is that, as there is a barren country reaching up to the very borders of the Kingdom of Literature, so too is there a dull and dreary Hall of Simulation which we may enter and believe it to be the Palace of Art. Here people are busy painting, carving, modelling, and what not; the very sun labours here with his photographs, and he is as good an artist as the rest, and better, for the notion in this Hall is that the object of Art is to make things exactly like life. So the so-called artists labour away to get the colour and form of the things they see, and to paint these on canvas or shape them in marble or model them in wax (flowers), and all the time they miss, because they do not see, that subtle presence which we call Beauty in the objects they paint and mould. Many persons allow themselves to be deceived in this matter and go through life without ever entering the Palace of Art, and perceiving but little of the Beauty of Nature. We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.
Charlotte Mason
Ourselves, p.43

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