Charlotte Mason‘s Educational Method is centered around the idea of a three-pronged education. Education is atmosphere (environment). Education is discipline (habits of character). Education is life (academics). It is essentially learning through living and ideas, not simply through facts. Mason was a British educator living during the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. She had unique ideas about educating our youth for the time during which she lived and taught.

Mason’s method is a favorite amongst homeschooling parents. In fact, many public schools have adopted and adapted many of her principles of education and are applying them in the classroom.

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