In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a motherโs 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 MasonWe 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 MasonLet 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