“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 departments or municipal control. Again, she set little store by the results of public examinations.” — 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 of right thinking,—the importance of which cannot be exaggerated. This is an article in his Bill of Rights which we should be most careful to safeguard and to establish for the child. All those who teach… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share
“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 ready without any reminder, and the letter would be answered in detail and without any further reference to its pages. She constantly said,—“Always remember that persons matter more than things. Don’t say anything that will leave… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share
“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
