It was Charlotte Mason's conviction that the child should work steadily through a complete book. Little snippets of information here and there just don't hang together. Our generation is prone to amuse itself with fragmentary information and resources. We flip on the TV for brief programs, and then we think we know about the subjects they dealt with. A few paragraphs in a magazine, and we think that we've formed an opinion. What is happening often is that we are merely forming a habit of amusing our interest, and then for getting the fragments. This is not education...
The child needs books with "literary power."~ Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
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