About Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason was a late 19th/early 20th century educator who was ahead of her time. She understood the unique nature of children and trusted their abilities beyond what the stiff educational culture in England at that time dictated. She was a deep reader and thinker, drawing from a wide range of timeless sources. She tested, applied, and refined her methods over decades with thousands of children producing remarkable results which she documented in her six volumes, now known as The Original Homeschooling Series. Her ideas took hold in the US in the 1980s when Susan Schaeffer Macaulay published her book, For the Children’s Sake, which continues to inspire parents today.

While culture has changed immensely since Charlotte Mason’s time, we are still grappling with failures in education. Her desperate cry still stands over one hundred years later:

“Our crying need to-day is less for a better method of education than for an adequate conception of children,––children, merely as human beings.”

Parents, embracing this cry, are picking up the torch she faithfully carried forward and creating a revival of learning all their own.