Again, we have made a rather strange discovery, that the mind refuses to know anything except what reaches it in more or less literary form.
Persons can 'get up' the driest of pulverised text-books and enough mathematics for some public examination; but these attainments do not appear to touch the region of mind.
Of Natural Science, too, we have to learn that the way into the secrets of nature is not through the barbed wire entanglements of science as she is taught but through field work or other immediate channel, illustrated and illuminated by books of literary value.
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Burgess Bird Book by Thornton W. Burgess
Napoleon's Buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Gulp by Mary Roach
It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence O. Richards
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe
A Meaningful World by Benjamin Wiker and Jonathan Witt
Who Made the Moon? by Sigmund Brouwer
The Language of God by Francis Collins
But the object of the Parents' Review School is not merely to raise the standard of work in the home schoolroom. Our chief wish is that the pupils of the School should find knowledge delightful in itself and for its own sake, without thought of marks, place, prize or other reward; that they should develop an intelligent curiosity about whatever is on the earth or in the heavens, about the past and the present. The children respond and take to their lessons with keen pleasure, if they get even tolerably good teaching, and the want of marks, companionship, or other stimulus is not felt in those home schoolrooms where the interest of knowledge is allowed free play.
attributed to Charlotte Mason, from "Parents' Review School", The Parents' Review, Vol. 12, No. 9 (1901)
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