Possibly Aunt Frances was right, after all, and Elizabeth Ann was a very impressionable child. I wonder, by the way, if anybody ever saw a child who wasn't.
~Dorothy Canfield Fisher~
Give a 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.
~Charlotte Mason~
One life knows many judgements, she said. They are like the chapters in a book. What if every chapter but the last is one of defeat? The last can redeem it all. And God knows the heart that in its weakness longs for Him. Patient still, He adds another chapter, and then another, and then in the hour of victory closes the book.
~Elizabeth Goudge~
Children should be brought up, too, to perceive that a miracle is not less a miracle because it occurs so constantly and regularly that we call it a law; that sap rises in a tree, that a boy is born with his uncle's eyes, that an answer that we can perceive comes to our serious prayers; these things are not less miracles because they happen frequently or invariably, and because we have ceased to wonder about them.
~Charlotte Mason~
Books
What worlds of wonder are our books!
As one opens them and looks,
New ideas and people rise
In our fancies and our eyes.
The room we sit in melts away,
And we find ourselves at play
With some one who before the end,
May become our chosen friend.
Or we sail along the page
To some other land or age.
Here's our body in the chair,
But our mind is over there.
Each book is a magic box
Which with touch a child unlocks.
In between their outside covers
Books hold all things for their lovers.
~Eleanor Farjeon~
Robin - this is so timely as I have been thinking of reviving one that I started a while back. Thanks so much!
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