Children Should Be Encouraged…

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

Give Your Child…

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for their education, than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

a single idea.jpg~ Charlotte Mason

We All Have Need…

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“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

We All Have Need…

trained to see summer

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

Everybody Needs Beauty As Well As Bread…

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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