A Literary Education Quotes

“Just because a book is considered “children’s literature”, doesn’t mean it’s childish. Many of my favorite books are written for children! A good story is a good story, and you will find that you enjoy many well-written books just as much (if not more) than your children.”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling

“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest. ~ Charlotte Mason”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling

“Give your child a world full of heroes and myths, big thoughts to think about and things to fall in love with, ideas to ponder and inspire them. That is the best education possible – one in which they see learning as a life-long pursuit and not something that must be done within the “schooling hours” each day.”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling

“Load your bookshelves with the best literature you can find. Hang beautiful, thought-provoking art work around your house. Watch history and science documentaries as well as good movies and television programs. Listen to beautiful music (which, of course, is open to interpretation).”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling

“The question is not, — how much does the youth know? When he has finished his education — but how much does he care? And about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? And, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” ~ Charlotte Mason”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling

“Literature is peopled with characters that your children will want to emulate and filled with places they’ll want to pretend to go. Poetry will fill their minds with beautiful language and spark their own creativity with words and stories. They will create their own worlds and characters based on those that they hear you read about, imagining themselves into the story.”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling

“Let them once get in touch with Nature, and a habit is formed which will be a source of delight through life. We were all meant to be naturalists, each in his degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.” – Charlotte Mason”
― Emily Cook, A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling