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
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
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
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — 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
