“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.” KnowsMenLooksPersonsBookCompanyInfluenceProofFishingYieldAssociatesEmbroidery Book:The Original Home School Series Source: The Original Home School Series
“The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.” KnowsBelieveChildrenImaginationImpossibleLandAdventureSceneTalesFairyHeroicFairy TaleDelicious Author:Charlotte Mason
“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.” KnowsPersonsBreakBoundsUnexpectedSuspectsSubmitExceedCommonplaceMeasurementBreak OutNature Beauty Author:Charlotte Mason
“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
