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Charlotte Mason was an English educator born on January 1, 1842, and died on January 16, 1923. She is known for her unique educational philosophy, emphasizing student autonomy, moral education, and the importance of the natural environment.

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Famous 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.”

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Book:Towards a Psychology of Education

Source: Towards a Psychology of Education

“The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.”

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Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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.”

Mind Children Book Ideas Matter Use Causes Enjoy Intellectual Mark Impact Delightful Inception

Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.”

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Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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.”

“Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.”

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Author:Charlotte Mason

“Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.”

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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.”

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Book:Home Education

Source: Home Education

“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.”

Ifs Giving Mind Children Ideas Done Information Our Children Burden Valuable Your Children

Book:Home Education

Source: Home Education

About the Author

Born: January 1, 1842
Died: January 16, 1923
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Quotes: 59

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The Original Home School SeriesRelated source material

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Towards a Psychology of EducationRelated source material

An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for AllRelated source material

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