Amongst both school and home educators, Charlotte Mason’s methods and Classical Education have long been considered two different things.  In fact, they should not be.  Charlotte Mason deliberately looked back to classical educators such as Plato, Plutarch, Comenius, and Milton for her inspiration.  She drew her ideas from the past and presented them to her contemporaries in a form that was easy to understand and implement.  She wasn’t just a marginal Victorian teacher—she was a modern thinker whose ideas about education have their source in the classical past.  Because the postmodern world that we live in finds its beginnings in the world she lived in, her message is still pertinent and timely and needed even more sorely than when she first wrote.