Home / Quotes / Quote by Charlotte Mason

Quote by Charlotte Mason

“Education is the science of relations”

Quote by Charlotte Mason

Book:School Education

Work

School Education

This book delves into the various aspects of school education, exploring the foundational theories, teaching methods, and administrative practices that shape the educational experience. more

Author

Charlotte Mason

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. more

You May Also Like

“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”

Years Children Persons Moments Effort Possibility Educator Manifold

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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.”

Children Ideas Body Spiritual Life Is Parent Duty Inner Life

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.”

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.”

Knows Believe Children Imagination Impossible Land Adventure Scene Tales Fairy Heroic Fairy Tale Delicious

Author:Charlotte Mason

“Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.”

Children Has Beens Book Use Running Natural Dues Composition Jumping

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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.”

Ifs Giving Should May Children Made Book Certain Pleasure Exercise Delight Possession Chosen Passages Favourite Verses Transcription

Author:Charlotte Mason

“What a child digs for becomes his own possession.”

Children Possession

Author:Charlotte Mason

“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.”

Children Pain Mother Easy Habit Smooth Good Habits Easy Days

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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.”

Knows Persons Break Bounds Unexpected Suspects Submit Exceed Commonplace Measurement Break Out Nature Beauty

Author:Charlotte Mason

“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.”

Men Firsts Children Universe Three Importance Indispensable Knowledge 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