Kate Perry

“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 Mason, The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason

“It is worth while to point out the differing characters of a system and a method, because parents let themselves be run away with often enough by some plausible ‘system,’ the object of which is to produce development in one direction—of the muscles, of the memory, of the reasoning faculty—were a complete all-round education. This easy satisfaction arises from the sluggishness of human nature, to which any definite scheme is more agreeable than the constant watchfulness, the unforeseen action, called for when the whole of a child’s existence is to be used as the means of his education.”
― Charlotte M. Mason, The Original Home School Series

“...like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .”
― Charlotte Mason, Ourselves

“our power to conduct our relations with other people depends upon our power of conducting our relations with ourselves. Every”
― Charlotte M. Mason, Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series