It was not toward methods that Miss Mason pointed her students; it was to the depth and breadth of a broad and rich curriculum founded on many living books and ideas. Hers was always an applied philosophy of education—the “knowing and doing” to be lived out with real integrity. Provide the student with an abundant feast of learning, and she will educate herself—the powers of curiosity, attention, retention, and expression naturally turned on to the meat of this curriculum.

