2022 Reprint of the 1920 Ninth Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) was a British educator who invested her life in improving the quality of children's education. She was founder of the Charlotte Mason College of Education in England and was 100 years ahead of her time in developing an education 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 importance of the home as a setting for schooling have made her a founding influence in the home schooling movement. Her work has been especially influential in the United States.