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 More Quotes by Charlotte Mason More Quotes From Charlotte Mason What a child digs for becomes his own possession. Charlotte Mason possession children Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours! Charlotte Mason littles children way Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts. Charlotte Mason teacher book children Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton. Charlotte Mason miracle eye children 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 abiding educational school 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 spiritual children ideas Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on. Charlotte Mason water children thinking Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. Charlotte Mason crowds sight mind 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. Charlotte Mason mother running children Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without. No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind stuff. Both quantity and quality are essential. Charlotte Mason self men children 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 measurement unexpected break-out 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 cities teacher book So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas it holds must each make that sudden, delightful impact upon their minds, must cause that intellectual stir, which mark the inception of an idea. Charlotte Mason impact book children Every person exceeds our power of measurement. Charlotte Mason exceed measurement persons A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator Charlotte Mason effort children years 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 transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another. Charlotte Mason exercise book children 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. Charlotte Mason mom mother home Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen. Charlotte Mason evidence 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 prosperity comfort children We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children. Charlotte Mason learning book children
