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Charlotte Mason Quotes

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education Picture Quote #1

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend Picture Quote #1

Look on education as something between the child’s soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child’s brain and the standardized test Picture Quote #1

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life Picture Quote #1

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÃ‚Â’s hands Picture Quote #1

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen Picture Quote #1

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Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life Picture Quote #1

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing Picture Quote #1

What a child digs for becomes his own possession Picture Quote #1

Every person exceeds our power of measurement Picture Quote #1

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without Picture Quote #1

Education is the science of relations Picture Quote #1

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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 to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live Picture Quote #1

The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil: Picture Quote #1

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days Picture Quote #1

For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other Picture Quote #1

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding Picture Quote #1

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more Picture Quote #1

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To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child’s intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find Picture Quote #1

The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books Picture Quote #1

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information Picture Quote #1

We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement Picture Quote #1

Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books Picture Quote #1

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 to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child’s inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food Picture Quote #1

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The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures Picture Quote #1

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 marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things Picture Quote #1

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 growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air Picture Quote #1

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 out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery Picture Quote #1

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind Picture Quote #1

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading Picture Quote #1

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Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend... (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Look on education as something between the child’s soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child’s brain and the standardized test. (Charlotte Mason Quotes) We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life. (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÃ‚Â’s hands. (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life (Charlotte Mason Quotes) An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing (Charlotte Mason Quotes) What a child digs for becomes his own possession (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Every person exceeds our power of measurement (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Never be within doors when you can rightly be without (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Education is the science of relations (Charlotte Mason Quotes) 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 to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live (Charlotte Mason Quotes) The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil: (Charlotte Mason Quotes) The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days (Charlotte Mason Quotes) For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other (Charlotte Mason Quotes) The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding (Charlotte Mason Quotes) We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more (Charlotte Mason Quotes) To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served. But they must learn to know literature by being familiar with it from the very first. A child’s intercourse must always be with good books, the best that we can find (Charlotte Mason Quotes) The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information (Charlotte Mason Quotes) We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books (Charlotte Mason Quotes) 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 to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child’s inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food (Charlotte Mason Quotes) The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures (Charlotte Mason Quotes) 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 marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things (Charlotte Mason Quotes) 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 growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air (Charlotte Mason Quotes) 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 out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery (Charlotte Mason Quotes) Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind (Charlotte Mason Quotes) The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading (Charlotte Mason Quotes)

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