Parents' National Education Union

“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought,…

— Parents' National Education Union

“Miss Mason had a genius for education. She had an inbred good sense and an unfatigued sensibility. Her mind was tempered by…

— Parents' National Education Union

“Letters sometimes required thinking over and Miss Mason would say,—“I will give you the answer to that tomorrow”; and tomorrow the answer…

— Parents' National Education Union

“But we have to reconsider our whole approach to the history of the past—have we so taught it through ‘Drum and Trumpet’…

— Parents' National Education Union

“The way in which Miss Mason started the college was the way in which she did everything:—she did not wait for funds;…

— Parents' National Education Union

“Knowledge is information touched with emotion: feeling must be stirred, imagination must picture, reason must consider, nay, conscience must pronounce on the…

— Parents' National Education Union

“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

“We remember Miss Mason because she taught us to regard the children as “perfect but immature”; that their minds were each an…

— Parents' National Education Union

“Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and…

— Parents' National Education Union

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were…

— Parents' National Education Union

“If parents take no heed of the great thoughts which move their age, they cannot expect to retain influence over the minds…

— Parents' National Education Union

“Miss Mason’s life was one long struggle against mechanism. She distrusted organisation and standardisation. For this reason, she would have no truck…

— Parents' National Education Union