Charlotte Mason Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Holiday

  "Towards a Psychology of Education".

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Soul, Brain

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

• The indwelling of Christ is a thought particularly fit for the children, because their large faith does not stumble at the mystery, their imagination leaps readily to the marvel, that the King Himself should inhabit a little child's heart.

  Charlotte Mason

  Kings, Children, Heart

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

• The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter of fact, it is the man who has read and thought on many subjects who is, with the necessary training, the most capable whether in handling tools, drawing plans, or keeping books.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Men

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Religious, Children, Personal Knowledge

• Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents 'talk-in' and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children...Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.

  Charlotte Mason

  Teacher, Children, Book

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

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Way, Should

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Home Education”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Littles, Way

• Children should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Home

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Character, Parent

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Ideas, Giving

  Charlotte Maria Mason (1935). “Home Education”, Tyndale House Publishers

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Song, Children, Book

• In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother’s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Educational

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Possession

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Believe, Adventure

  "Home Education".

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

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Reading, Common

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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

  Charlotte Mason

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Learning

• Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Delight, Moral

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Years, Effort

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Men, Self

• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Ideas

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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