Day 97 Gather

"Girl Carrying a Basket," Winslow Homer

(see also By Degrees)

“The powers of Mansoul are many, but they are one; and, by careful scrutiny, we gather hints enough from the behaviour of each to help us in discerning those laws of our being whereby we must order ourselves.”

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“It is well that we gather up, with tender reverence, such fragments of their (former generations’) insight and experience as come in our way; for we would fain, each, be as an householder, bringing forth out of his treasures things new and old.”

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“Conscience and reason have their say, but will is supreme and the behaviour of will is determined by all the principles we have gathered, all the opinions we have formed.”

 
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“So, in unlikely ways and from unlikely sources, do children gather that little code of principles which shall guide their lives.”
     
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“It rests with us to add to our faith, virtue, and to our virtue, knowledge. It is an unheard-of thing that the youth of a great nation should grow up without those ideals, slow enough in maturing, which are to be gathered for the most part from wide and wisely directed reading.”

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“…science seems to me to be the way of intellectual advance. All the same, the necessity incumbent upon us at the moment is to inculcate a knowledge of Letters. Men and their motives, the historical sequence of events, principles for the conduct of life, in fact, practical philosophy, is what the emergencies of the times require us to possess, and to be able to communicate. These things are not to be arrived at by any short cut of economics, eugenics, and the like, but are the gathered harvests of many seasons' sowing of poetry, literature, history. The nation is in sore need of wise men, (and women) and these must be made out of educated boys (and girls).”
 
 
 
Examen: “Show that childhood is the time for gathering materials for classification.” Am I aware of what is being gathered each day in my classroom?  Is there a symbol or  an object I could add that would remind me?


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The powers of Mansoul: Charlotte M. Mason, Ourselves, 4:174 Bk.II.
It is well: Charlotte M. Mason,  Formation of Character, 5:157.
Conscience and reason:  Charlotte M. Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, 6:135.
So, in unlikely: 6:135.
It rests with us: 6:307.
...science seems to me: 6:313.
Show that childhood: Charlotte M. Mason,  Home Education,  1:375.
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Day 97 Gather meditation/100 days copyright Laurie Bestvater 2025

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