Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. — 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
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,… — 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
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
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
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
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — 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
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
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
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
Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. — 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 fruitful ideas,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
