Starting Habits for Intellectual Study as a Mom | Mother Academia | Classical Charlotte Mason

For Augustine, the reason I want to know is an indicator of the sort of love that motivates my learning. Am I learning in order to grow, learning in order to know who and how to love? Or am I learning in order to wield power, get noticed, be seen as smart, be “in the know”?

We are raising babies and getting degrees and eating jackfruit pulled-pork sandwiches and listening to podcasts and exfoliating our pores—all while trying to serve in church and read the Bible and resist the world, the flesh, and the devil.