Came across these words in my inbox recently:
When we ask ourselves, “Is my child learning enough?,” Charlotte would gently remind us that we are asking the wrong question.
“The question is not,”how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education” but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?” (Vol. 3, pp. 170, 171).
And the interesting part of this process is that as our children form those personal relations and begin to care about a variety of interests, they will learn the facts about those interests along the way. But the facts are not the focus.
Read more about these thoughts here: Is My Child Learning Enough?
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