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Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.
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The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.
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Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live.
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Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.
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The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.
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Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.
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Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children's hands.
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Charlotte Mason
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Born:
January 1, 1842
Died:
January 16, 1923
(aged 81)
Bio:
Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason was a British educator in England at the turn of the twentieth century. Her revolutionary methods led to a shift from utilitarian education to the education of a child upon living ideas.
Known for:
School education (1905)
Home education (1906)
A philosophy of education
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