Charlotte Mason Quotes

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, future character and conduct depend.

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.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

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.

Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.

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

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

Every common miracle which the child sees with his own eyes makes of him for the moment another Newton.

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

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

Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

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.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

Education is the science of relations

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

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:.

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

There is no education but self-education.