Modern Miss Mason Quotes

“We seek to be sources of inspiration who walk alongside children and help them find the treasure of knowledge that was meant for them with solutions they can tie into the story of their lives. As we observe the divine spark in them, we begin to understand who they really are and the valuable part they play in the world. We learn to celebrate raising humans who will add to the grand story of all our lives.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Whiles much of the Victorian Era's education prepared young people for the workforce, school looked different for children of wealthy families. A governess would offer the upper class children lessons in music and art and languages that in turn benefited the child's education and understanding of the world. Meanwhile, the children in the lower classes received only the minimal basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. An important premise of the born person approach is that people of every background and status should have access to a wide curriculum and the freedom to search for knowledge. Each child is worthy of a liberal education for all.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Leading a Charlotte Mason inspired life does not automatically ensure high academic achievement, guarantee career outcomes, or produce uniform, conforming adults. Giving freedom for our children and young adults to live a rich life served from a varied platter of thought, inspiration, and creativity will allow them to live out their born person lives in the light of it all. I long to live in a world where electricians know Shakespeare and add care and conversation to the lives of their colleagues, clients, and work; where paramedics hear Kipling’s words when faced with tragedy and know they can keep their head when others all about them are losing theirs. I want to see the work of designers, illustrators, and animators presenting stories of heroes, history, and hope. I long to hear the sound from singers and actors on twenty-first-century stages inspired by the soundtrack of their childhood, still hearing their mothers’ voices filling the atmosphere with music that lifted people’s spirits, spoke to them of salvation, or simply brought peace into the core of their home.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“The key to nature study is not the location of where we live, but how much we live in the location we find ourselves in.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Charlotte Mason’s first transforming principle argues that children are born persons. Each child is born unique with character, innate personality, gifts, and raw abilities. As parents and educators, we must learn to be curious about who they are in order to help them become who they are destined to be.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“T. S. Eliot poetic warning: “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“The language of rhythm and repetition may sit gentler with you and your children rather than habit and discipline. Remember language creates culture, so use what sits right with you.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“I would love to value connection over curriculum every time. Let's build a life and rhythm that leaves room for conversation, disruption, and questions.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“As parents we know we have something to teach our children, but it is also true that they have something to teach us.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Quiet compliance is not the same as deep engagement.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Masterly inactivity offers the opportunity for intentional thought, planning, and guidance on the part of the parent, whilst allowing children the freedom to learn and explore for themselves.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Books are for loving as well as for learning.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Being around women of wisdom is the heart of staying intellectually alive.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Books only build upon the foundation of grass between toes, leaves in hair, and a real live newt in your hand. Nature is the space where the seeds of understanding are planted deep.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“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, HOME EDUCATION”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Living books usually have one passionate author; have an enthusiastic, narrative style; are page-turners; and are easy to talk about afterwards.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“When we find ourselves locked into helicopter homeschooling, we must admit that we have lost trust in ourselves and our children.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together

“Whether your children are being taught by you or others, I trust that you are joyfully creating a home atmosphere that cultivates curiosity and wonder.”
― Leah Boden, Modern Miss Mason: Discover How Charlotte Mason’s Revolutionary Ideas on Home Education Can Change How You and Your Children Learn and Grow Together