“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.

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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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What if parents and teachers in their zeal misread the schedule of their duties, magnified their office unduly and encroached upon the personality of children? It is not an environment that these want, a set of artificial relations carefully constructed, but an atmosphere which nobody has been at pains to constitute. It is there, about the child, his natural element, precisely as the atmosphere of the earth is about us. It is thrown off, as it were, from persons and things, stirred by events, sweetened by love, ventilated, kept in motion, by the regulated action of common sense. We all know the natural conditions under which a child should live; how he shares household ways with his mother, romps with his father, is teased by his brothers and petted by his sisters; is taught by his tumbles; learns self-denial by the baby's needs, the delightfulness of furniture by playing at battle and siege with sofa and table; learns veneration for the old by the visits of his great-grandmother; how to live with his equals by the chums he gathers round him; learns intimacy with animals from his dog and cat; delight in the fields where the buttercups grow and greater delight in the blackberry hedges. And, what tempered 'fusion of classes' is so effective as a child's intimacy with his betters, and also with cook and housemaid, blacksmith and joiner, with everybody who comes in his way? Children have a genius for this sort of general intimacy, a valuable part of their education; care and guidance are needed, of course, lest admiring friends should make fools of them, but no compounded 'environment' could make up for this fresh air, this wholesome wind blowing now from one point, now from another.
Charlotte Mason
Towards a Philosophy of Education, pg 97

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