A Twaddle-Free Education Quotes

“Regarding children’s literature, look for interesting content and well-constructed sentences clothed in literary language. The imagination should be warmed and the book should hold the interest of the child.  Life’s too short to spend time with books that bore us.”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

“Charlotte Mason says, this “idea of definite work to be finished in a given time is valuable to the child, not only as training him in habits of order, but in diligence; he learns that one time is not 'as good as another'; that there is no right time left for what is not done in its own time; and this knowledge alone does a great deal to secure the child's attention to his work.”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

“Homeschooling did not become legal in all fifty states until 1993”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

“(t)he aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality.” As a former New York State Teacher of the Year, Gatto’s views of public education were developed after years of firsthand experience within the very system he critiques.”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

“Better Late than Early by Raymond and Dorothy Moore.”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

“Nature Journal: Discovering a Whole New Way of Seeing the World Around You, by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth. The book is written and illustrated by science educators who use Nature Journals as their primary way of teaching people to learn about nature firsthand. A beautiful book!”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas

“Life’s too short to spend time with books that bore us. If”
― Deborah Taylor-Hough, A Twaddle-Free Education: An Introduction to Charlotte Mason's Timeless Educational Ideas