More about Our Mission

At the CMEC we are dedicated to putting Charlotte Mason’s philosophy into practice. Mason was a British educator and philosopher who believed that children deserve a broad education that is delightful, challenging, and life-giving. 

Mason spread her educational approach far and wide through the Parents' National Educational Union, her teacher training college, and a monthly journal she published, the Parents' Review.

During her life, her philosophy gained the support of professors, teachers, educationalists, and homeschool families around the world. This legacy continued for many decades after her death -- and we at the CMEC continue it today.

After starting as a small co-op in the Philadelphia area in 2011, we slowly expanded to reach others in our local community, building a curriculum and offering webinar training. Soon many of our friends around the country wanted to join too!

From the beginning, our offerings have been shaped by what the real families we lived and learned with have needed to be successful with Mason’s principles and programs.

Please join with us as we create a network of “thinking parents,” as Sarah in Indiana writes:

The CMEC is for the thinking mom -- the mom who wants to enjoy the journey of self-education alongside her children, not simply "homeschool" them. I love that it's a place where there is freedom to think deeply and not just do a thing because some curriculum writer said it was to be done,  that the community and the programs are aimed at equipping children to do the work of learning and building up their minds themselves. It is a place that feels serious, in the sense of intellectually important -- we are encountering the really human things together as we study God, His people, and His creation -- but also joyful and beautiful.