Janna Wilson

“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children.”
― Charlotte M. Mason, The Original Home School Series

“The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.”
― Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education

“I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.”
― Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“...the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations, much questioning, if we over-moralize, depend on the work book to work the mind, what thinking is left for the child to do?”
― Karen Andreola, A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning