“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:.” GivingChildrenProblemHandsEvilRegardTraitsEducator Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.” GivingMayChildrenLittlesSeemsSpiritReligiousLordMankindExamplePossibilityDivineHolyPerfectionVery GoodInsightSupremeIntimacyHoly SpiritSecularEducatorIntimacy With GodCulminationReligious EducationPersonal Knowledge Author:Charlotte Mason
“I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit" book; and this for two reasons: What a child digs for is his own possession; what is poured into his ear, like the idle song of a pleasant singer, floats out as lightly as it came in, and is rarely assimilated. I do not mean to say that the lecture and the oral lesson are without their uses; but these uses are, to give impulse and to order knowledge; and not to convey knowledge.” ThinkingGivingMeanChildrenTwoBookReasonUseSongOrderSubjectsFitLessonsEarsPossessionSingersImpulsePleasantIdleFloatsLectures Author:Charlotte Mason
“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.” MenGivingMindChildrenDoeHas BeensSaidSelfMatterYoungSpiritStuffQualitySubjectsStudentsHe ManEssentialsQuantityPersistWiserSelf EducationYoung ChildrenQuantity And Quality Author:Charlotte Mason
“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.” ThinkingGivingShouldFeelingsWould BeInterestNumbersLearningAimPassingPassingsImmenseStrainTediousInitiateHomeschoolingFull Life Book:School Education Source: School Education
“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.” IfsGivingShouldMayChildrenMadeBookCertainPleasureExerciseDelightPossessionChosenPassagesFavouriteVersesTranscription Author:Charlotte Mason
“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.” IfsGivingMindChildrenIdeasDoneInformationOur ChildrenBurdenValuableYour Children Book:Home Education Source: Home Education
