I have to confess, this motto: “I am, I can, I ought, I will,” which many home schoolers have adopted as their own, has never really grabbed me.
Until I saw this formulation:
I am a child of God,
I ought to do His will,
I can do what he tells me,
And by His grace I will.
I rather like that.
from “The Child is a Person” by Jack Beckman in When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason’s Philosophy for Today