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For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.
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Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
Charlotte Mason
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.
Charlotte Mason
There is no education but self-education.
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We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.
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Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
Charlotte Mason
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
Charlotte Mason
Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.
Charlotte Mason
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.
Charlotte Mason
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.
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We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.
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A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator
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None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.
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Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.
Charlotte Mason
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Charlotte Mason
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.
Charlotte Mason
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ’s hands.
Charlotte Mason
Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.
Charlotte Mason
Education is the science of relations
Charlotte Mason
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.
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