Favorite CM Quotes

Crystal’s 2nd quote above is my favorite, though there are many others which I will try to remember to post later.

Not sure if this link will get my post caught in a spam trap, but I wanted to share a print that I ordered and have up in our school room, a beautiful depiction of the quote. I am not affiliated with this artist, just love her work and thought someone else might enjoy having this print:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/525637623/charlotte-mason-art-print-woodland?ref=shop_home_feat_2&frs=1

I love this one, though I’m not always great at implementing it:

“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

And this one has helped me greatly in feeling contented with a simpler education with lots of reading aloud and discussing whatever comes up as we read:

“Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.”

This one appeals to my lazy side… 😉 oh, to have 3 hours of uninterrupted time in my bed!

“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! If she would only have courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out in the fields, or with a favourite book, or in a picture gallery looking long and well at just two or three pictures, or in bed, without the children, life would go on far more happily for both children and parents. The mother would be able to hold herself in ‘wise passiveness,’ and would not fret her children by continual interference, even of hand or eye––she would let them be.”