Charlotte Mason didn't think so.
Neither do I.
Now...McDonald and Burger King toys? Yes, you can definitely have too many of those.
But books are the vitamins you feed to your brain. You really don't want to deny your brain its daily vitamin, do you? So what are you reading today? And what do you plan to read to your child today?
Remember, it takes only 15 minutes a day to give your child his/her vitamin.
Thank you to Dewey's Treehouse for giving us something worthwhile to think about: Books? or School?
She writes in part:
"Charlotte Mason believed that children were able to deal with real knowledge, the great and noble ideas found in living books, without the teacher having to filter out the information for them first, or predigest it for the children and then make a sort of little mental nourishment pill for them out of what was left. She thought that teachers usually did way too much talking, lecturing, and questioning, and children not enough thinking and talking; and that schools provided way too little reading material (she complained about too little being spent on good books, and too much being spent on fancy manipulatives, models and other things that seemed to do a lot of the children's thinking for them. Sound familiar?)."
Speaking of books, prepare yourself this week for a book bonanza. Stop here tomorrow and find out what brain foods are being served.
My dh says "yes, you can have too many books (unless they're theological/philosophical books, and then no)" while I say, NEVER TOO MANY BOOKS!
Can't wait to see what tasty vitamins you have for us this week!
Posted by: Mary G. | January 13, 2008 at 05:04 PM
Im a new reader of your blog and am enjoying it immensely.
I am in full agreement that you cant have too many books.
I love all the books pictured on your sidebar. I havent read them all but they all look good!
Posted by: mrs darling | January 13, 2008 at 05:48 PM