Education is a Life

"We absolutely must disabuse our minds of the theory that the functions of education are, in the main, gymnastic.  In the early years of the child's life it makes, perhaps, little apparent difference whether his parents start with the notion that to educate is to fill a receptacle, inscribe a tablet, mould plastic matter or nourish a life; but in the end we shall find that only those ideas which have fed his life are taken into the being of the child; all else is thrown away, or worse, is an impediment and an injury to the vital processes."

-Charlotte Mason, "The Draft Proof"