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, Home Education, Part II Out-Of-Door Life For The Children. V. Living Creatures
“Every child has a natural interest in the living things about him which it is the business of his parents to encourage.”
Charlotte Mason
Home Education: Part II Out Of Door Life For children V Living Creatures
“By degrees the children will learn discriminatingly every feature of the landscapes with which they are familiar, and think what a delightful possension for old age and middle life is a series of pictures imaged, feature by feature, in the sunny glow of the child’s mind!”
Charlotte Mason ~ Home Education Part II Out-Of-Door-Life For The Children II Sight Seeing
“The parents’ chief care is, that that which they supply shall be wholesome and nourishing, whether in the way of picture-books, lessons, playmates, bread and milk, or mother’s love.”
Charlotte Mason ~ Volume I, part I
Wishing my UK readers a very happy Mother’s Day!
‘Reverence for life, . . . is a lesson of first importance to the child:-
“Let knowledge grow from more to more; But more of reverence in us dwell.”
The child who sees his mother with reverent touch lift an early snowdrop to her lips, learns a higher lesson than the ‘print-books’ can teach.’
Charlotte Mason, Home Education Part II: Out Of Door Life For The Children VI. Field Lore & Naturalists’ Books
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like mud.
“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
“Here is a duty that lies upon us all; for we all enter on the inheritance of the heavens and the earth, the flowers of the field and the birds of the air. These are things to which we have right, no one can take them from us; but, until we get as much as a nodding and naming acquaintance with the things of Nature, they are a cause rather of irritation and depression than of joy”
Charlotte Mason Vol. 4, Ourselves. Book 2, Ch 15 p. 97
Let them once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight and habit through life
Charlotte Mason
Never be within doors when you can rightly be without ~ Charlotte Mason
Vol 1: Home Education Part II Out of Door Life For The Children
