"Education is a Life" + Nourishing the Mind | Principles #8-11

Charlotte Mason Motherhood

In today's podcast we are discussing principles #8-11 of Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles. The eighth principle is the third of three instruments of education; "Education is a life." Learn about what this phrase means and how we can nourish a child's mind in today's episode.

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Show Notes:

See the show notes for this episode

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Commonplace Quotes:

Principle #8: “In saying that “education is a life” the need of intellectual and moral as well as of physical sustenance is implied. The mind feeds on ideas, and therefore children should have a generous curriculum."

Principle #9: "We hold that the child's mind is no mere sac to hold ideas; but is rather, if the figure may be allowed, a spiritual organism, with an appetite for all knowledge. This is its proper diet, with which it is prepared to deal; and which it can digest and assimilate as the body does foodstuffs."

“One of our presumptuous sins in this connection is that we offer opinions to children (and to older persons) instead of ideas” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 110)

“we know that food is to the body what fuel is to the steam-engine, the sole source of energy; once we realize that the mind too works only as it is fed education will appear to us in a new light” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 105)

“...but an idea clothed up on with fact, history, and story, so that the mind may perform the acts of selection and inception from a mass of illustrative details” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 111).

“...all I have said is meant to enforce the fact that much and varied humane reading, as well as human though expressed in the forms of art, is not a luxury, a tit-bit, to be given to children now and then, but their very bread of life, which they must have in abundant portions and at regular periods” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 111).

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Further Education:

A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason (pages 104-127)

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