Day 20 Books - living with

"Molly Reading a Book" Rose Mead

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“…the sort of thing we are looking for––the sudden keen, insatiate delight in a book which means kinship….”
 
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“Not only are morals and manners taught, but our enthusiasms, even our religion, are kindled by fiction, whether in prose or verse. Our Lord Himself gave some of his deepest teaching in the fabulous stories known to us as parables;”

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“But we want a wider range of knowledge than the life about us affords, and books are our best teachers.”

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"’Studies serve for delight’; this delight being not in the lessons or the personality of the teacher, but purely in their 'lovely books,' 'glorious books.' 

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“…the only vital method of education appears to be that children should read worthy books, many worthy books.”

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“As for literature––to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to lay before them a feast exquisitely served.”
 
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“But she (the teacher) will bear in mind that the child of six has begun the serious business of his education, that it does not matter much whether he understands this word or that, but that it matters a great deal that he should learn to deal directly with books.”

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“I do not know better how to describe the sort of books that children's minds will consent to deal with than by saying that they must be literary in character.”
 

Examen: Are books my “kin?”

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...the sort of thing: Charlotte M. Mason, School Education, 3:196.
Not only are: Charlotte M. Mason, Ourselves, 4:161 Bk.I.
But we want: 4:9 Bk.II.
Studies serve for: Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:7.
 ...the only vital: 6:12.
As for literature: 6:51.
But she will: 6:172.
I do not know: 6:248.

Day 20 Books-living with meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025​

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