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Day 61 Desire will do its Devoir

5/4/2025

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This image was drawn on the back of Edward Hopper’s third grade report card dated October 23, 1891, when Hopper was nine years old. Little Boy Looking at the Sea, n.d. The Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust.
(see also Delight, Desires)
 
“Nature will look after (the child) and give him promptings of desire to know many things….”

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“The Christian religion is, in its very nature, objective. It offers for our worship, reverence, service, adoration and delight, a Divine Person, the Desire of the world. Simplicity, happiness, and expansion come from the outpouring of a human heart upon that which is altogether worthy.” 
 
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“That normal children have a natural desire for, and a right of admission to, all fitting knowledge, appears to me to be suggested by the phrase, 'Education is the science of relations.'”
 
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“This appetite or desire for knowledge is a sufficient stimulus for all schoolwork, if the knowledge be fitly given.”

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“Desire will do its devoir (work) in collecting sustenance for the mind.”
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             “We must learn what we desire to know.”
 
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                     “Desire of Nations is His name!”
 
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                  “All men by nature desire to know.”

​                                                   ~ Aristotle

 
Examen: Am I aware of my own desires and their connection to my growth? Do I trust desire to lead learning?  


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Nature will look:  Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education, 1:192.
The Christian religion: Charlotte M. Mason, Parents and Children, 2:285.
That normal children:  Charlotte M. Mason, School Education, 3:Preface.
The appetite or desire: 3:214.
Desire will do:  Charlotte M. Mason, Ourselves, 4:75 Bk.I.
We must learn: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:277.
Desire of the Nations: Charlotte M. Mason, The Saviour of the World - Vol. 1, 20.
All men by: Aristotle, Metaphysics, trans. W. D. Ross (Nuvision Pubns, 2009) Bk.I.


​Day 61 Desire will do meditation/100 days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025

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