Charlotte Mason Quotes

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• Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so…
• Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
• Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must…
• The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.
• Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them…
• Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
• There is no education but self-education.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
• Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life
• Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ’s hands.
• Education is the science of relations
• A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many…
• Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them…
• Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.
• Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it…
• Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
• 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…

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