"Children come to us with compelling
inborn powers of mind
in place, yet also with ignorance,
which like an appetite,
must be fed on "mind food"
from living books and ideas,
life and experiences.
In this desire for knowledge,
they are ravenous."
Jack Beckman
From: When Children Love To Learn
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"We must sustain a child's inner life with ideas
as we sustain his body with food...
He is eclectic; he may choose this or that;
our business is to supply him with due abundance and variety
and his to take what he needs...
Out of a whole big book a child may not get
more than half a dozen of those
ideas upon which his spirit thrives;
and they come in unexpected places and unrecognized forms...
...all I have said is meant to enforce the fact that
much and varied humane reading,
as well as human thought expressed in the forms of art,
is not a luxury... to be given to children now and then,
but their very bread of life,
which they must have in abundant proportions
and at regular periods."
Charlotte Mason
Vol. 6, pp. 109-111 | 