 Elephant frightened by a mouse - in “” Theater Magazine””, Sep 1925 (see also Art of Standing Aside, Character, Control, Despise) “But we may make use of certain physiological laws without encroaching on personality, because, in so doing, we should affect the instrument and not the agent. The laws of habit and, again, the tendency of will-power to rhythmic operation should be of use to us, because these are affected by brain-conditions and belong to the outworks of personality." * “…understand that it is not we who pasture the young souls. The managing mother, (or teacher) who interferes with every hour and every occupation of her child's life, all because it is her duty, would tend to disappear. She would see, with some amusement, why it is that the rather lazy, self-indulgent mother is often blessed with very good children. She, too, will let her children be, not because she is lazy, but being dutiful, she sees that––give children opportunity and elbow-room, and they are likely to become natural persons, neither cranks nor prigs. And here is a hope for society; children so brought up are hardly likely to become managing persons in their turn, inclined to intrude upon the lives of others, and be rather intolerable in whatever relation. No doubt children are deeply grateful to managing parents, and we are all lazy enough to be thankful to persons who undertake our lives for us, but these well-meaning persons encroach; we are required to act for ourselves, think for ourselves, and let other persons do the same.” * “A person may sing and dance, enjoy music and natural beauty, sketch what he sees, have satisfaction in his own good craftsmanship, labour with his hands at honest work, perceiving that work is better than wages; may live his life in various directions, the more the merrier. A certain pleasant play of the intellect attends the doing of all these things; his mind is agreeably exercised; he thinks upon what he is doing, often with excitement, sometimes with enthusiasm. He says, "I must live my life," and he lives it––in as many of these ways as are open to him; no other life is impoverished to supply his fullness, but, on the contrary, the sum of general joy in well-being is increased both through sympathy and by imitation. This is the sort of ideal that is obtaining in our (P.N.E.U) schools and in the public mind, so that the next generation bid fair to be provided with many ways of living their lives, ways which do not encroach upon the lives of others.” * “She (Mason) would not deliver those she loved from the growing pains of thinking for themselves, and sometimes those who did not understand took her silence for consent when they suggested things she did not wish. They little knew that she was only waiting for them to think clearly for themselves.” ~ Elsie Kitching Examen: “What if parents and teachers in their zeal misread the schedule of their duties, magnified their office unduly and encroached upon the personality of children?” ~~~~~~~ We may make: Charlotte M. Mason, Formation of Character, 5:Preface. ...understand that it is: 5:417. A person may: Philosophy of Education, 6:329. She would not deliver: Cholmondley, The Story of Charlotte Mason, 65. What if parents: Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:96. Day 75 Encroach meditation/100 Days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025
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