"Education is a Discipline" | Principle #7

Charlotte Mason Motherhood

In today's podcast we are discussing principle #7 of Charlotte Mason's 20 Principles. The seventh principle is the second of three instruments of education; "Education is a discipline."

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Show Notes:

See the Show Notes for This Episode

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Commonplace Quotes:

“We need not labour to get children to learn their lessons…Let the lessons be of the right sort and children will learn them with delight’ (p. 99)

“The habits of fitting and ready expression, obedience, of good-will, and of an impersonal outlook are spontaneous by-products of education in this sort. So, too, are the habits of right thinking and right judging; while physical habits of neatness and order attend upon the self-respect which follows an education which respects the personality of the child” (p. 100)

“If we fail to ease life by laying down habits of right thinking and right acting, habits of wrong thinking and wrong acting fix themselves of their own accord” (p. 101)

“We entertain the idea which gives birth to the act and the act repeated again and again becomes the habit; ‘Sow an act,’ we are told, ‘reap a habit.’ ‘Sow a habit, reap a character.’ But we must go a step further back, we must sow the idea or notion which makes the act worthwhile” (p. 102)

“It is possible to sow a great idea lightly and casually and perhaps this sort of sowing should be rare and casual because if a child detect a definite purpose in his mentor he is apt to stiffen himself against it” (p. 102).

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Further Education:

A Philosophy of Education by Charlotte Mason (pages 99-104)

Article from 1967 on “Education is a Discipline”

Habits of the Household by Justin Whitmel Earley

Habit Training Resources:

Laying Down the Rails by Simply Charlotte Mason

Our 24 Family Ways by Clay Clarkson

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