Parents and Children

CHARLOTTE MASON on training the total child: "That work which is of most importance to society is the bringing-up and instruction of the children-more than anything else [it is] the home influences brought to bear upon the child that determine the character and career of the future man or woman."Charlotte Mason (1842-1923), founder of the Charlotte Mason College of Education in England, was 100 years ahead of her time in developing an educational philosophy that stressed bringing broad and stimulating education to a child in a noncompetitive, biblically based way.Mason's timeless, practical insights and her stress on the responsibility of the home have made her a founding influence in the home schooling movement.