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Charlotte Mason Quotes about Learning

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Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all

Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

Charlotte Mason
Learning, Thinking, Numbers
Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, 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

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