 "Discussing Talmud" Isidor Kauffmann (see also Born Person, Children's Magna Carta) “Should Nourish with Ideas––To nourish a child daily with loving, right, and noble ideas we believe to be the parent's next duty. The child having once received the Idea will assimilate it in his own way and work it into the fabric of his life; and a single sentence from his mother's lips may give him a bent that will make him, or may tend to make him, painter or poet, statesman or philanthropist. The object of lessons should be in the main twofold: to train a child in certain mental habits, as attention, accuracy, promptness, etc., and to nourish him with ideas which may bear fruit in his life.” * “The Child has every Power that will serve Him. ––What, then, have we to do for the child? Plainly we have not to develop the person; he is there already, with, possibly, every power that will serve him in his passage through life. Some day we shall be told that the very word education is a misnomer belonging to the stage of thought when the drawing forth of 'faculties' was supposed to be a teacher's business. We shall have some fit new word meaning, perhaps, 'applied wisdom,' for wisdom is the science of relations and the thing we have to do for a young human being is to put him in touch, so far as we can, with all the relations proper to him.” * “We want an education which shall nourish the mind while not neglecting either physical or vocational training; in short, we want a working philosophy of education. I think that we of the P.N.E.U. have arrived at such a body of theory, tested and corrected by some thirty years of successful practice with thousands of children.” * “So let us think of living and dismiss for the moment the word education from our minds with the reminder that it comes from educare, meaning to nourish, Life has to be nourished.” ~ Mary Hardcastle Examen: Can I think of myself as simply living with children? What is the table we both come to for nourishment? ~~~~~~~ Should Nourish with Ideas: Charlotte M. Mason, Parents and Children, 2:228. The Child has every: Charlotte M. Mason, School Education, 3:75. We want an education: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:6. So let us: “AO Parents’ Review Archives AmblesideOnline.Org,” accessed July 12, 2024, https://www.amblesideonline.org/PR/PR53p209ComesDownTo.shtml. Day 73 Educare meditation/100 days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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