"In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a motherâ€™s first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air."

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Source : Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Charlotte Mason

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Educational Quotes

“The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.”
“Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.”

Source : Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company
“With me it's always about first impressions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
“When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.”
“No matter what happens, the world can be pretty ridiculous and people be pretty ridiculous, but how would you react? That's an easy filter to put any story through.”
“Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
“No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.”

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