Charlotte Mason Quotes

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life. – Charlotte Mason

The mind feeds on ideas and therefore children should have a generous curriculum. – Charlotte Mason

The only safe rule is to recognise no such things as lessons, only life. – Charlotte Mason

Children are born persons. – Charlotte Mason

A child’s mind is not a bucket to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. – Charlotte Mason

Education is an art, and the teacher should be an artist. – Charlotte Mason

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without. – Charlotte Mason

The teaching should not be all talk and questions, but largely of the nature of guiding and direction. – Charlotte Mason

The child who learns his science from a text-book, though he go to woods and meadows with hammer and net, must go with borrowed eyes. – Charlotte Mason

It is thought and ideas that are fertile, not books and lessons. – Charlotte Mason

We owe it to every child to put him in communication with great minds that he may get at great thoughts. – Charlotte Mason

Education is a life, and that life is sustained on ideas. – Charlotte Mason

It is a great thing to possess a pageant of color, a library of sound, a gallery of form; and in this place of splendor and beauty children should dwell and learn. – Charlotte Mason

No one can do wrong to others without doing much more wrong to himself. – Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason Quotes part 2

The great thing is made up of small things done with love. – Charlotte Mason

A favourite author, however, has more power than the parent, and though the parent may do much to give poetic tastes by sitting up all night to finish a favorite poem, yet there must be an enthusiastic lover of poetry in the house whose appetites are stronger than the parent’s philosophies. – Charlotte Mason

It is the extraordinary labour of the imagination which takes the ordinary events of life and turns them into letters of intellectual gold. – Charlotte Mason

Teach a child what they are worth and they will spend their life proving it. – Charlotte Mason

No work will ever be well done unless a child takes a pride in doing it. If half done, it must be done better; if hurried, it must be done with more care; and a mere apology for a duty no child of mine should be allowed to offer. – Charlotte Mason

The child breathes, eats, drinks of ideas much as he breathes, eats, and drinks of air, food and beverage. – Charlotte Mason

Why do anything by halves? – Charlotte Mason

Mothers owe a ‘thinking love’ to their children. – Charlotte Mason

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. – Charlotte Mason

Now is the accepted time to make your regular, annual, good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving the hell with them as usual. – Charlotte Mason

The aims and methods of education are fixed, the child is as normal and as ordinary as ever and there is a way whereby the educator can set about his business without let or hindrance. – Charlotte Mason

It is the sort of young people one is meeting with. Children without conscience, without reverence—let us be sorry for them, for they have missed one of life’s great blessings. – Charlotte Mason

A delicate tone of feeling is a neutral ground for a vast variety of characters. – Charlotte Mason

The right atmosphere for their education is one of simplicity and freedom. – Charlotte Mason

Children should never be talked to as if they were the people of small importance or unvalued possessions they too often are. – Charlotte Mason

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. – Charlotte Mason

Let your teaching be as living pictures painted in colors. The lessons we learn ourselves from pictures or nature live forever. – Charlotte Mason

We may not live as we please, but we must live as we can. – Charlotte Mason

Art is long, life is short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. – Charlotte Mason

We owe it to every child to put him in communication with great minds that he may get at great thoughts. – Charlotte Mason

The best thought the world possesses is stored now in books. – Charlotte Mason

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – Charlotte Mason

Ideas are like works of art. They are beautiful and worthy of our attention, but they also require our interpretation and emotional engagement to come to life. – Charlotte Mason

Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Charlotte Mason

Children are born persons with vast intellectual potential, and it is our duty as educators to inspire and nourish their minds. – Charlotte Mason

The wonder of the world, the beauty, the interest, is all education — as much education as books and teachers can possibly be. – Charlotte Mason

Let them [children] once get in touch with nature and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight and habit through life. – Charlotte Mason

Children should be taught not to feel and think merely, but to act upon their feelings and thoughts. – Charlotte Mason

We should allow no separation to grow up between the intellectual and ‘the heart’ of the child. – Charlotte Mason

The object of all education is to cause a young child not to just know and pass that which is taught but to find and know himself, so that he may know WHY he knows it–and what it is good for. – Charlotte Mason

Education is simply the science of relations. – Charlotte Mason