"Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life."
-Charlotte Mason

Tuesday 23 December 2008

Charlotte Mason Quotes

Kindergarten

"In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mothers 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."

Language arts

“But one who tries this method on himself will find that in the act of narrating every power of his mind comes into play."

Nature Study

"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."

"Let them once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight and habit through life."

Geography

"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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