“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.

Charlotte Mason series

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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You, dear people are torch-bearers, bearing the light. It is not because we are clever, not because we know more, but because it has been our good fortune that a philosophy of Education has come our way, our vocation has led us. We have received a call and are working on principles not worked on before. There is no cause for vanity on our part. If you picked up a bracelet lying by the way it would be no credit to you. It is precisely the case with us. These principles are picked up, found, a find which is no one’s property, they belong to all who have wit enough to take them. ...
..."He who has, must share.” And we believe that we possess this precious thing – the one fundamental educational principle, - we must pass it on far and wide. The world to-day is physically fed, but intellectually famished. If we look into the faces of those we pass in the street, the majority of them are dull, immobile faces, with no soul looking out of them. Nowadays the word “countenance” is seldom used, perhaps it is because so few faces are interesting enough to be described as such. Countenance comes only from reading and reflection. The mind needs proper, adequate food every bit as much as the body. ...
...What is our fundamental principle? It is self-education. The small child who said “We narrate and then we know “had got hold of it. “The child is a person” and has a natural craving for knowledge. All we have to do is to satisfy this craving by providing ample intellectual food, and then to leave the child to assimilate the food for himself. He narrates and then he knows. He gives back what he has taken in, and so makes it his own possession.
Charlotte Mason
L'Umile Pianta, 1922

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