Composition is as natural
Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. Charlotte Mason
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Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books. Charlotte Mason
The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:. Charlotte Mason
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. Charlotte Mason
Education is the science of relations Charlotte Mason
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only … Read more
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrens hands. Charlotte Mason
The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures. Charlotte Mason
Let the parent ask Why? and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him – and he will remember it – the reason why. Charlotte Mason
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other. Charlotte Mason
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