Episodes

  • The Week’s Message, by Charlotte Mason
    May 20 2025

    Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The Teacher’s World was a journal published in the first part of the last century. Originally it appeared as two separate periodicals, The Woman Teacher’s World and The Teacher, but these were combined into one around 1914. The cover story of the March 4, 1914 issue was written by Charlotte …

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    7 mins
  • Learning to Live
    May 13 2025

    “On my arrival at Ambleside I was interviewed by Miss Mason who asked me for what purpose I had come. I replied: ‘I have come to learn to teach.’ Then Miss Mason said: ‘My dear, you have come here to learn to live.’” — a new student at Charloe Mason’s teacher training college It is …

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    41 mins
  • Jane Austen
    May 6 2025

    Editor’s Note, by Richele Baburina 2025 marks the 250th year of Jane Austen’s birth. In celebration, we are adding another article to our Jane Austen repertoire. This one comes in the form of a Scale How Tuesday, an evening gathering in which a teaching student at the House of Education presents on a favorite author …

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    18 mins
  • Conference at the House of Education
    Apr 29 2025

    Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff In 1906 “the head of an important school” approached Charlotte Mason and suggested that she convene a conference of educational leaders. The purpose would be “to confer as to the possibility of introducing a common curriculum for children under 14 into secondary schools.”[1] Charlotte Mason followed the suggestion, at least …

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    35 mins
  • Easter Day
    Apr 22 2025

    Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The final Scale How Meditation to be published in Charlotte Mason’s lifetime appeared in the 1909 Parents’ Review. However, and perhaps to the surprise of readers, a new meditation was unveiled two years after Mason’s death in the April 1925 issue. It was said to be Miss Mason’s Easter Day …

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    10 mins
  • The War And The Children
    Apr 15 2025

    Editor’s Note. This letter from Charlotte Mason was first published in The Times and then reprinted in the April 1915 issue of The Parents’ Review. In this letter Mason formally addressed the nation as the doyen, or senior representative, of teachers. By Charlotte M. Mason The Parents’ Review, 1915, pp. 269-274 Sir,—This is a time …

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    16 mins
  • Escaping the Clutches of the Cadillac Course
    Apr 8 2025

    You might recall the homeschool product reviews the Andreola family wrote for a Christian catalog for 14 years (2000–2014). Who knew anything about the quantity of stuff we didn’t review? Here’s a look at one evening during our last year of writing reviews. Another Box of Curriculum Samples Letting the dishes soak, I decided to …

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    9 mins
  • A Letter to the Children
    Apr 1 2025

    Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The final issue of Aunt Mai’s Budget opened with these lines: My dear Children,—This month I am very, very sad. The time has come when I feel I must say good-bye to you… For eight happy years we have lived together, and I have watched you all growing with the …

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    12 mins