Charlotte M. Mason Quotes

#1. Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

Charlotte M. Mason

#2. 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.

Charlotte M. Mason

#3. Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

Charlotte M. Mason

#4. Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it. We might as well say we have breakfasted, as if breakfasting on one day should last us for every day! The book that helps us deserves many readings, for assimilation comes by slow degrees.

Charlotte M. Mason

#5. The question is not,
how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education
but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?

Charlotte M. Mason

#6. Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Charlotte M. Mason

#7. There is no education but self-education.

Charlotte M. Mason

#8. The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

Charlotte M. Mason

#9. A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

Charlotte M. Mason

#10. If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!

Charlotte M. Mason

#11. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...

Charlotte M. Mason

#12. Like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .

Charlotte M. Mason