The Mind Feeds On Ideas

The mind feeds on ideas, and therefore children should have a generous curriculum. - Charlotte Mason

The Secret of life is to Know Glory When We See It ...

Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life to know ‘glory’ when we see it. Charlotte Mason

A Profound Need to be Still

Though we are often moving too fast to notice it, there is in each of us a profound need to be still, to be alone, to reflect, to meditate, to contemplate, to wait to reach a kind of bone deep honesty with our own souls. {Syllable of Water “The Writers Notebook”}

Take time to write

Taking time to write by hand slows us down and allows truth to seep in - Laurie Bestvater {The Living Page -30}

Books are teeming with ideas ...

"And all the time we have books books, teeming with ideas fresh from the minds of thinkers upon every subject to which we can wish to introduce children." Charlotte Mason

Take time to enjoy the wonders of your world

"We are so accustomed to take wonders as matters of course, mere everyday events, that it does not occur to us to be surprised."- Charlotte Mason

We all have a need to be trained to see

"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

Freedom in the City of Books

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.
- Charlotte Mason

You have not lived

Quotes of interrest ...

Hello My Bloggy Friends

I have been wondering what you have all been up to and what you have been talking about on your blogs as I have had no Internet access.  The lack on Internet has certainly made me appreciate what I do have and so often take for granted. Today the internet has allowed me to access my home page here in blogger world !!  

Hope you are all well and feeling encouraged.  I will be traveling to Johannesburg this Friday but will be needing a lift back to Hoedspruit.  Please be in prayer for me.

I have had a great past two days just sitting and reading, this is something I have not been able to do for a long time.  My aim is to catch up on my 52 in 52 challenge for this year.  I have managed to read four books in two days

1. Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
2. Scars and Stilettos - Harmony Dust (www.iamatreasure.com)
3. A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard
4. Monkey Business (The Murder of Anni Dewani) - Mike Nicol (facebook update following book)

Blessings
Chareen

Some Quotes to think about

"When you give someone a book, 

you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. 

You give him the possibility of a whole new life." 

-- Christopher Morley, 1890-1957,
Novelist, Journalist and Poet

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the
lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the
myth: persistent, persuasive and realistic."
-- John F. Kennedy

It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system 

that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry 

when you want to learn to construct buildings, o

r to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings 

when you want to read poetry. 

~John Taylor Gatto

How can it be a large career to 

tell other people's children about arithmetic 

and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? 

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone 

and narrow to be everything to someone? 

No, a woman's function is laborious because it is gigantic, 

not because it is minute.
~ G. K. Chesterton

Robert Gallagher Quote

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
~Robert Gallagher