Picture a banquet, a feast, lavishly spread on a long table. Now, keep that picture in your mind, for that is how Charlotte Mason described the abundance of ideas that we should make available to our children in their school work. ... You wouldn’t call a plate of bread and a pitcher of water a feast. No, a feast involves lots of food! So have you planned to present your child with an abundance of knowledge? ...
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This is one of Ms. Mason's ideas that I just love. Feasts are fancy food. They're food that you put some effort into. Think of all the planning and work that goes into a Thanksgiving feast. And not just the feast itself, but into the presentation. It seems to taste better when it's arranged nicely, when it tempts not only the stomach, but also is visually tempting and the smells... One knows that it's nearly time for dinner when the smells become heavenly. This is Charlotte Mason's metaphor for teaching, for tempting our children to the lovely world of learning.
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