This is one of my favorite Charlotte Mason quotes, in Chapter 9 of School Education:
We do not merely give a religious education, because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may, at the same time, be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.
She goes on to describe a fresco in a chapel in Florence, which illustrates the medieval (and her) view of education as ultimately a gift of the Holy Spirit. For more on how this fresco inspired her philosophy of education (she also writes about it in Parents and Children), see Brandy Vencel’s post: Thoroughly Christian – CM’s 20th Principle
