“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.” WayFirstsChildrenRunningMotherPurposeGrowsSuccessfulFireHabitCommandPerpetualRight WayTeaseSecured Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“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.” YearsFirstsChildrenMotherSocialGrowingAirDutyQuietSixPressureExtraordinaryEducationalSecureWakingPassiveReceptiveFresh Air Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.” MenFirstsChildrenUniverseThreeImportanceIndispensableKnowledge Of God Book:An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for All Source: An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for All
“As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install 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.” KnowsFirstsChildrenBookLiteratureRichDoorsLaysKingdomsFamiliarGloriousHolidayIntroducingGood BookIntercourse Author:Charlotte Mason
