Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
Charlotte MasonChildren should have the joy of living in far lands, in other persons, in other times - a delightful double existence; and this joy they will find, for the most part, in their story books. Their lessons, too, history and geography, should cultivate their conceptive powers. If the children do not live in the times of his history lesson, be not at home in the climate his geography book describes, why, these lessons will fail of their purpose.
Charlotte MasonEvery walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.
Charlotte MasonThe mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.
Charlotte MasonGive your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.
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