“Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and even the letter, but above all the spirit.” — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought, the function… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“Miss Mason had a genius for education. She had an inbred good sense and an unfatigued sensibility. Her mind was tempered by great literature.… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“Letters sometimes required thinking over and Miss Mason would say,—“I will give you the answer to that tomorrow”; and tomorrow the answer would be… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“But we have to reconsider our whole approach to the history of the past—have we so taught it through ‘Drum and Trumpet’ that the… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“The way in which Miss Mason started the college was the way in which she did everything:—she did not wait for funds; she knew… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is information touched with emotion: feeling must be stirred, imagination must picture, reason must consider, nay, conscience must pronounce on the information we… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“When she talked with you she brought out the best that was in you, something that you did not know was there.” — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“We remember Miss Mason because she taught us to regard the children as “perfect but immature”; that their minds were each an indivisible whole,… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and even the… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“If parents take no heed of the great thoughts which move their age, they cannot expect to retain influence over the minds of their… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
“Miss Mason’s life was one long struggle against mechanism. She distrusted organisation and standardisation. For this reason, she would have no truck with government… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
