Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason, who lived from 1 January 1842 to 16 January 1923, was a British educator and reformer in England at the turn of the twentieth century. She proposed basing the education of children upon a wide and liberal curriculum, and she worked for five years under Fanny Trevor at Bishop Otter College. Her philosophy of education has been summarized as two principles, that children are born persons and that education is the science of relations. She promoted a humanistic and highly integrative model of education that emphasized cultivating a love of learning in children as well as spiritual and moral formation, and her theories have become especially influential in the Christian education and homeschooling movements.