How can one really know and love a study, a book, a person, an element of creation, God Himself, without knowledge, a knowing of the object or person? Charlotte Mason always emphasizes that at the heart of transformative education is a person, child or adult, connecting in a living and receptive way through relationship. It is a way of learning and being that cannot be done for someone else.

Charlotte Mason said: “Thus it rests with parents to ease the way of their child by giving him the habits of the good life in thought, feeling, and action, and even in spiritual things." How can you and I do this more consistently? How can we admit our mistakes, form new habits and perspectives, and align ourselves more readily with the Holy Spirit in His love for our children? Much of that will depend on our relative desire to be humble, teachable, and do the hard work of being attentive, ourselves.