Not Narrow in Vision

"She was broadminded in a good sense.  While never wavering on the infrastructure of truth--our relationship with God through Jesus as set forth in His Word--she was not narrow in vision.  She was magnanimous and cultured.  To her the mind of a miner's child was just as hungry for the best educational nourishment as a child of the royal family.  In the same way, she did not differentiate between the minds or persons of boys and girls.  All were to be given the tools of literacy so they could be nourished at the foundation of the greatest minds--right across all disciplines.  Not for her the nonsense of girls being deprived of the classical world, literature, history, the great art, music, scientific thought, or languages.  In her view of childhood, girls climbed trees, learned to swim, and ice-skated just as boys did.  Girls were to enjoy unfettered freedoms and challenges in the great outdoors.  All were to notice and appreciate nature."

            --Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, on Charlotte Mason, in When Children Love to Learn