Let 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 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 MasonWe are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.
Charlotte MasonThe peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
Charlotte Mason