Some great quotes I picked up this weekend……

“He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.”

~George Simmel, German philosopher

“I think this wise; the greatest service we can do to education is to teach fewer subjects.  No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”

~C.S. Lewis

“He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.”

~Aristotle

“Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher.   The less the parents ‘talk-in’ and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children…Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.”

~Charlotte Mason

These are some quotes Joanne Calderwood passed out at her vendor workshop.  I knew I liked her as soon as I started reading the quotes because I love Charlotte Mason’s ideas.