So What Actually IS a Charlotte Mason Education?
Last time, we talked about the challenges I faced attempting to study up on Charlotte Mason, a Victorian educator who’s ideas are popular among modern day home educators. A lot of what I found was pretty fluffy, a lot about what it should feel like and not much about what it should look like. Today, I’m going to spare you the hunt. I’ll break down the features of what Charlotte Mason style education tends to look like, according to my research. Note, as always, that I’m not claiming to be perfectly objective or to be the final word here. The very fact that it requires so much digging makes it difficult to sum up in a few neat points.
And yet, I’m going to try.