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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

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

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

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

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited to prosperity and comfort, we get these, very likely, for ourselves and for them, but we get no more.

Charlotte Mason
Children, Comfort, Prosperity
Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.562, Simon and Schuster

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.

Charlotte Mason
Children, Book, Exercise
"Home Education".

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

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.

Charlotte Mason
Children, Parent, Mind
Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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

Charlotte Mason
Children, Hands, Imagination
Charlotte Maria Mason (1906). “Home Education”

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

Charlotte Mason
Running, Children, Book
Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.177, 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

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:.

Charlotte Mason
Children, Hands, Evil
Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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