"Let children alone... the education of habit is……" — Charlotte Mason
"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 with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose."
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Charlotte Mason
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38 Quotes by Charlotte Mason
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
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Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good…
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Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes…
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The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the…
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Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
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There is no education but self-education.
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None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books…
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In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure…
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We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a…
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The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with…
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Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life
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Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ’s…
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