As a good Victorian, Miss Mason often refers to Coleridge, Dickens, the Greek tragedians, Macaulay, Ruskin, and all the poets, thinkers, and first order historians one might expect of her generations. We may be able to bring many a technical addition and sophisticated insight to Charlotte Mason's methods, based on the developed work of child psychology. And, of course, we can sift and add to her book list. As to her principles - let their sanity probe ours. Springing from her Christian world view, intellectual development is wedded to moral and spiritual development.
Physical development has a fundamental interrelated place, too.
Happily, she spoke into a society in which an appreciation for objective truth in moral and spiritual realism could still be assumed. Catholics looking at Miss Mason's Anglican perspective will recognize one thing she overlooked . And that is an understanding of the value of the Magisterium in helping us to discern truth in relation to faith and morals. Charlotte Mason consciously built upon natural law . Having referred to Charlotte Mason's practical wisdom,without illustrating it in specific detail, I encourage homeschooling readers, as yet unfamiliar with her thought, to peruse any of her books, perhaps starting with her book Home Education .