An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrens hands. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit" book; and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
“Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share
