Day 42 Code of Education

Bella Vichon, 1919, Jesus Blessing Children

“It may surprise parents who have not given much attention to the subject to discover also a code of education in the Gospels, expressly laid down by Christ. It is summed up in three commandments, and all three have a negative character, as if the chief thing required of grown-up people is that they should do no sort of injury to the children: Take heed that ye OFFEND not DESPISE not- HINDER not one of these little ones.”
 
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“Here we have sketched out a magnificent educational charter.”
 
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“…we are beginning to recognise that education is the applied science of life, and that we really have existing material in the philosophy of the ages and the science of the day to formulate an educational code whereby we may order the lives of our children and regulate our own.” 
 
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“Of all our sins of omission and commission, none perhaps are worse than the way we defraud children of those living ideas which are their right.”

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            “Lo, here, that Model the Great Teacher set.”
 
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“We do not claim to be philosophers; we are modest and practical people looking out for a secure basis for education. It is just possible that bringing unbiased minds and a few guiding principles to the task, we have, not joined the parts of the puzzle, but perceived dimly how an outline here and an outline there indicate, not so many separate psychologies, but shadowings forth of a coherent, living, educational principle destined to assume more and more clearness and fulness until it is revealed to us at last as the educational gospel, the discovery of which may be the destined reward and triumph of our age.”
 
 
 
Examen: “What are the three commandments of the Gospel code of education?”Am I ordering my life around this code?  Why or why not?

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 It may surprise parents:  Charlotte M. Mason, Home Education, 1:12.
 Here we have sketched: Charlotte M. Mason, Parents and Children, 2:25.
...we are beginning: 2:119.
Of all our sins:  Charlotte M. Mason, Formation of Character, 5:283–84.
Lo, here, that Model: Charlotte M. Mason, The Saviour of the World - Vol. 1, 128.
We do not claim: Charlotte M. Mason, School Education , 3:62.
What are the three: Home, 1:354.
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 Day 42 Code of Education meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025

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