Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Rev. Francis Lewis was the headmaster of a grammar school in Ambleside for eighteen years. During this time he became an examiner for the Parents’ Union School and then a part-time instructor at the House of Education. Charlotte Mason named him in her will as one of the individuals entrusted …

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Joseph H. Allen was a Lancashire educationalist who lectured on educational topics and was also known for his service to the elderly.[1] He contributed multiple articles to The PNEU Journal, and his 1975 piece on the teacher is striking for its faithfulness to Charlotte Mason’s ideas so many decades after …

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff On August 14, 1913, Avice M. Cox became the wife of A. V. Cecil Moore.[1] Avice was a House of Education graduate from the class of 1903[2] whose work had appeared in The Parents’ Review.[3] Her groom was a teacher at a boys’ preparatory school. Through their relationship, Mr. Moore …

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Miss B. E. Moore was the headmistress of a girls’ elementary school “in one of London’s most needy districts.”[1] In the early 1920s, she decided to adopt the Charlotte Mason method. Soon afterwards she gave a lecture during which she was reportedly “enthusiastic over the results of P.N.E.U. methods during …

In most schools today, technology is king. All students are given tablets and everyone learns to code. We are told that this approach gives kids an advantage. It prepares them for a future that is becoming more and more digital every day. Other schools reach back to a nearly forgotten past. A time when science …

Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Last week, Part I of this article was posted, so if you would like to read more about the history of Morris Dance or the Espérance Club, or the reasons why we include folk dance in our Charlotte Mason curriculum, please read that editor’s note and article. Here in Part …

Editor’s Note, by Heidi Buschbach Why do we dance? Why was folk dance included in Charlotte Mason’s programmes? Why would an article which describes the history of collecting folk dances matter enough to be included in a Parents’ Review article in 1914? Why does it matter to you and me? Mason expressed in her volumes …

When Charlotte Mason published her fifth volume in 1906, she seemed to have decided it was time to move on to other projects. With the publication of Some Studies in the Formation of Character, the Home Education Series was complete. Having apparently said all that she had to say on the subject of education, it …

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff Last week we shared Arthur Burrell’s “Recitation: The Children’s Art,” the ground-breaking 1890 article that paved the way for his 1891 book Recitation: A Handbook for Teachers. In this book, which was heartily endorsed and recommended by Charlotte Mason in Home Education, Burrell carefully explained the differences between reading aloud, …

Editor’s Note, by Art Middlekauff The inaugural issue of The Parents’ Review appeared in February 1890. The second issue, published in March, contained a groundbreaking article that initiated reverberations which continue even to our day. The article was by Arthur Burrell and was the first of several articles he would write for The Parents’ Review …