Summer 2004 Years ago, I was an
unconventional, creative classroom teacher. Then as a parent I became a home educator with strong leanings toward delayed academics and unschooling—with a smattering of unit studies. For the past ten years, I’ve been
sold on the Charlotte Mason approach to education.
Charlotte Mason was a remarkable woman who was ahead of her time. She was an educator in England from the latter part of the 19th
century through WWI. Today, Charlotte Mason’s ideas are making a comeback in homeschool circles. I would like to share some of Charlotte’s 
educational philosophy—ideas that are just as pertinent to home educators today as they were a hundred years ago.
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