“Our aim in education is to give a full life.”
Charlotte Mason

Who was Charlotte Mason?

Read a brief introduction about Charlotte Mason and her educational methods.

Charlotte Mason series

Where can I read her writing?

Charlotte Mason's six volume Original Homeschooling Series has been transcribed and made available at AmblesideOnline along with Parents' Review articles, her school programmes and exams as well as many other resources.

Where can I find community?

You can search for a Charlotte Mason community in your area.

Where can I find a proven curriculum?

AmblesideOnline is the definitive Charlotte Mason curriculum used by thousands of families and educators around the world.

About Charlotte Mason Education

Charlotte Mason threw a door wide open to the public over one hundred years ago conveying her magnanimous ideas on education in ways that have had a profound effect on the way children learn. Those ideas have gained fresh interest in our modern lives as parents continue seeking a better way to educate their children, a way that treats them as a person created in the image of God. 

This site is an attempt to honor Charlotte Mason’s heartfelt passion to “throw open for public use” her ideas and methods for all who care to seek it. 



It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of facts. Such a diary, carefully kept through life, should be exceedingly interesting as containing the intellectual history of the writer; besides, we never forget the book that we have made extracts from, and of which we have taken the trouble to write a short review.
Charlotte Mason
Formation of Character, p. 260