"I'd like some ideas, Mommy."
"Mommy, I want some ideas."
Miss M has been saying this all day. I have no idea where she got it from. I wonder what she has in mind when she thinks of 'ideas'? Does she think they're cookies??
Or maybe she's truly a child after Charlotte Mason's own heart, earnestly yearning for that true, pure food that's as important for the nourishment of young souls and minds as food is for the physical body. (Or maybe she's heard me quote CM too many times? LOL!)
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"The life of the mind is sustained upon ideas; there is no intellectual vitality in the mind to which ideas are not presented several times, say, every day.... Every child gets many of these ideas by word of mouth, by way of family traditions, proverbial philosophy,––in fact, by what we might call a kind of oral literature. But, when we compare the mind with the body, we perceive that three 'square' meals a day are generally necessary to health, and that a casual diet of ideas is poor and meagre.... I should like to emphasize quantity, which is as important for the mind as the body; both require their square meals." [Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education, Vol 6 of her Home Education series, pg 25]
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