At Ms. Mason’s House of Education, the ideal held in esteem was “plain living and high thinking.” Hers was not an attempt at a detached, intellectual life but a hearty view of mind and body, trained, balanced, and working together in harmony. We see the effect of this perspective in many aspects of the curriculum she created, and in no place does it shine forth with as much clarity as in the recommendation of regularly setting time aside for Handicrafts. The education she envisioned trained the mind and the hands and ingeniously valued and integrated the two. Had not the goal of self – but a goal of being of use to others. There was an outward focus in her person and in her hopes for her students.
H is for Handicrafts
H is for Handicrafts
H is for Handicrafts
At Ms. Mason’s House of Education, the ideal held in esteem was “plain living and high thinking.” Hers was not an attempt at a detached, intellectual life but a hearty view of mind and body, trained, balanced, and working together in harmony. We see the effect of this perspective in many aspects of the curriculum she created, and in no place does it shine forth with as much clarity as in the recommendation of regularly setting time aside for Handicrafts. The education she envisioned trained the mind and the hands and ingeniously valued and integrated the two. Had not the goal of self – but a goal of being of use to others. There was an outward focus in her person and in her hopes for her students.