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
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… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. — 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
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
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with… — 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
