An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

- Charlotte Mason

Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

- Charlotte Mason

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

- Charlotte Mason

Every day, every hour, the parents are either passively or actively forming those habits in their children upon which, more than upon anything else, …

- Charlotte Mason

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life …

- Charlotte Mason

We all have need to be trained to see, and to have our eyes opened before we can take in the joy that is meant for us in this beautiful life.

- Charlotte Mason

As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their…

- Charlotte Mason

We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for exampl…

- Charlotte Mason

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the …

- Charlotte Mason