On Education. A Quote.

After being slightly aware of what a "Charlotte Mason educational" is for the past 2 years, I have finally jumped into reading and learning more about this educator and her appraoch. Two of my friends are owed credit for being patient with me in answering my questions until I got to the point of actually digging into some material on-line and in books. Looks like I"ll be doing a lot of reading for a while!

Its interesting to note how at differant points in my life I'm not ready to face something but when I come back to the topic later it totally clicks. For example, the book which I'll be quoting here, I started reading it well over a year ago and just coudn't get "into it" and wasn't getting much from it. But now much later, after reading some lighter, watered down outlines to get the "big picture, " this books is really interesting and is talk to me.

Here is a short passage that spoke to me recently. Its taken from For The Children's Sake. Foundations of Education for Home and Family by Susan Schaffer Macaulay, page 8. I won't give a commontary of why I like it so much. I'll just put it out there.

"When a baby is picked up, spoken to, and loved, he is starting his education as God planned. For all our lives we are human beings, in an active state of learning, responding, understanding. Education extends to all of life. In fact, an educational system that says, one bright summer's day in the dawn of my youth, "There. Now you are educated. This piece of paper says so," is doing me a gross disfavor. The truly educated person has only had many doors of interest opened. He knows that life will not be long enough to follow everything through fully."