Tag Archives: Charlotte Mason

Thoughts on Ourselves

Thoughts on Ourselves

I finished Charlotte Mason’s fourth volume, Ourselves, on Thursday. She wrote it for young people, but it really is a book that anyone from about the age of twelve and up can benefit from. I can see that reading it as a teenager might have helped me be more careful about the habits and thought… Continue Reading

CM Quote of the Day: In Our Way

CM Quote of the Day: In Our Way

Reading from Ourselves has been a bit sporadic lately, but I’m trying to buckle down and finish it by the end of the year. Then perhaps I can finally read Formation of Character in 2019. I appreciate how these words on helping others from Book II, Part I, Chapter XVI respect the personhood of both… Continue Reading

Book Notes: A Way of Thinking

Book Notes: A Way of Thinking

The following two quotes sit side-by-side in my commonplace book. I noticed them around the same time during my reading of The Living Page (where I re-read the Mason quote) and Never Give In (about Sir Winston Churchill), and they connected in my mind. I love how Churchill exemplified the ideas Charlotte Mason expressed. Our… Continue Reading

CM Quote of the Day: That Unruly Filly

CM Quote of the Day: That Unruly Filly

I’m pretty sure Charlotte Mason was thinking of me when she wrote these words in the chapter on Integrity in Ourselves (pg 171 & 172). 😉 In fact, I had been struggling to settle down and read this chapter because there were other books that seemed more interesting at the moment, but weren’t necessarily the next… Continue Reading

CM Quote of the Day: Envy

CM Quote of the Day: Envy

Because I needed to read this (italics mine): Envy is an ever-present Daemon, ready with a calumnious word for those who excel us. If they dance better, we do no care about dancing, and they must waste a great deal of time upon it. If they dress better, it is because they spend far too… Continue Reading