“An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.”
Charlotte Mason
Home Education Vol 1. Ch2: Out-Of-Door Life For The Children p.69
Category: Quotes
Trained To See…
“We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.”
Charlotte Mason
Eternal Summer
“There shall be
Eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
Celia Thaxter
Beauty As Well As Bread…
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
Happy July!
“Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.”
Sara Coleridge
We All Have Need To Be Trained To See…
“We all have need to be trained to see and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.”
Charlotte Mason ~ Volume 4: Ourselves
Children Should Be Encouraged…
Children should be encouraged to watch, patiently and quietly, until they learn something of the habits and history of bee, ant, wasp, spider, hairy caterpillar, dragon-fly, and whatever of larger growth comes in their way.
Charlotte Mason
Home Education, Vol 1, II, Out-Of-Door Life For The Children
The World’s Big…
The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
John Muir
We All Have Need To Be Trained To See…
“We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.”
Charlotte Mason
Consider, Too…
“Consider, too, what an unequalled mental training the child-naturalist is getting for any study or calling under the sun -the powers of attention, of discrimination, of patient pursuit, growing with his growth, what will they not fit him for?”
Charlotte Mason