I’ve started reading For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay for the third time, in preparation for the Charlotte Mason study group next Monday. I loved this reminder that education is a life-long journey:
When a baby is picked up, spoken to, and loved, he is starting his education as God planned it. For all our lives we are human beings, in an active state of learning, responding, understanding. Education extends to all of life. In fact, an educational system that says, one bright summer’s day in the dawn of my youth, “There. Now you are educated. This piece of paper says so,” is doing me a gross disfavor. The truly educated person has only had many doors of interest opened. He knows that life will not be long enough to follow everything through fully.
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I loved that, too, and am very excited about our group next week. I suppose I ought to keep reading … Brandy assigned a lot!
Love this quote. Life of learning – that is education.
It takes away the strain of having to 'cram everything into their lives before they finish homeschooling' when we take her words to heart. I try to re read this book every few years.