We're covering principles #4-6 of Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles. The sixth principle is the first of three instruments of education; "Education is an atmosphere."

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Show Notes:

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Commonplace Quotes:

“Set an example… in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity… be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.” (1 Timothy 4:12, 15-16 NIV).

“It is not an environment that these want, a set of artificial relations carefully constructed, but an atmosphere which nobody has been at pains to constitute" (A Philosophy of Education, p. 96)

“We all know the natural conditions under which a child should live; how he shares household ways with his mother, romps with his father, is teased by his brothers and petted by his sisters; is taught by his tumbles; learns self-denial by the baby’s needs, the delightfulness of furniture by playing at battle and siege with sofa and table; learns veneration for the old by visits of his great-grandmother; how to live with his equals by the chums he gathers round him; learns intimacy with animals from his dog and cat; delight in the fields where the buttercups grow and greater delight in the blackberry hedges” (A Philosophy of Education, p. 96)

“It is worth while to remember that space is the most precious and also the most pleasing thing in a house or room; and that even a small room becomes spacious if it is not crowded with useless objects.” (Ourselves, Book 1, p. 177).

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Further Education:

A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason (pages 94-99)

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason (Book 1, page 177)

The Lifegiving Home by Sally Clarkson

The Lifegiving Table by Sally Clarkson

Article from 1899 on the Influence of the Mother

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