 "Shepherdess Tending Sheep," Winslow Homer (see also Educare, Dig for Knowledge, Digest) “…every human being has a natural Desire to explore those realms open to intellect of which I have already spoken. Upon the knowledge of these great matters––History, Literature, Nature, Science, Art––the Mind feeds and grows. It assimilates such knowledge as the body assimilates food, and the person becomes what is called magnanimous, that is, a person of great mind, wide interests, incapable of occupying himself much about petty, personal matters. What a pity to lose sight of such a possibility for the sake of miserable scraps of information about persons and things that have little connection with one another and little connection with ourselves!” * “This natural aptitude for literature, or, shall we say, rhetoric, which overcomes the disabilities of a poor vocabulary without effort, should direct the manner of instruction we give, ruling out the talky-talky of the oral lesson and the lecture; ruling out, equally, compilations and text-books; and placing books in the hands of children and only those which are more or less literary in character that is, which have the terseness and vividness proper to literary work. The natural desire for knowledge does the rest and the children feed and grow. * “We must feed the mind as the body fitly and freely; and the less we meddle with the digestive processes in the one as in the other the more healthy the life we shall sustain.” * “Feed mind duly and its activities take care of themselves.” * “The function of the schools is no doubt to feed their scholars on knowledge until they have created in them a healthy appetite which they will go on satisfying for themselves day by day throughout life.” * “The completeness with which hundreds of children reject the wrong book is a curious and instructive experience, not less so than the avidity and joy with which they drain the right book to the dregs; children's requirements in the matter seem to be quantity, quality, and variety:” Examen: “Show that it is upon the knowledge of great matters the mind feeds and grows.” ~~~~~~~ ...every human being: Charlotte M. Mason, Ourselves, 4:78 Bk.I. This natural aptitude: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:90–91. We must feed: 6:259. Feed mind duly: 6:289. The function of: 6:348. The completeness with: 6:248. Show that it is: Mason, Ourselves, 4:212 Bk.II. Day 88 Feed (how) meditation/100 days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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