My Favorite Charlotte Mason Quotes

• All beautiful and noble possibilities are present in everyone.
•  Great artists, whether they be poets or painters, builders or musicians, have the power of expressing and showing to the rest of us some part of the wonderful visions Imagination has revealed to them. But the reason why we enjoy their pictures, their poems, or their tales, is because Imagination does the same sort of thing for all of us, if in a less degree.
•  “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 
•  “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 Mason
•  “...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...”
  
  
•  “Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.”
  ― Charlotte Mason