Charlotte Mason wasn't able to pinpoint an exact definition of an idea:
"The nature, functions, and behaviour of ideas, and how ideas have power in their impact upon the cerebral hemisphere to make some sort of sensible impression––all this is matter as to which we are able only to make 'guesses at truth.' But this need not dismay us, for such other ultimate facts as sleep and life and death are equally unexplained." (Vol 3 pg 69)
But Miss M knows exactly what an idea is. When she asked for one this afternoon, she was pointing very emphatically at her brother's burrito. So there you have it. Charlotte Mason didn't know, but Miss M does: an idea is a bean and soy cheese burrito.
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[I think I actually figured out where that connection came from. Yesterday, after showing off her knowledge of the word idea, one of her brothers made a quesadilla. If you say them both together, quesadilla and idea, they do sound the same. And a burrito looks very much like a quesadilla.]
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