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 MasonThe 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 MasonAuthority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
Charlotte MasonLet children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
Charlotte MasonComposition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
Charlotte MasonLet children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Donโt ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.
Charlotte Mason