Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. — Melinda Harmon Copy Share Image
“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” — Elizabeth Foss Copy Share Image
“Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.” — Tamara L. Chilver Copy Share Image
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.” — Voddie T. Baucham Jr Copy Share Image
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give. — John Hardon Copy Share Image
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the… — Wendy Priesnitz Copy Share Image
The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
“It’s good and just that you practice on teachers and school principals, because one day you are going to have to live… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest mistakes new homeschooling parents make is going into it with an 'all or nothing' mentality. That's a lot… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I… — Jan Hunt Copy Share Image
“If the educational system can claim anything consistently it would be that it is masterful at evoking a destructive axis of boredom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our freedom of speech is not some cute, optional, anachronistic thing that you write about on a short answer quiz about school… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“You would think that after fifteen years of war on terror, waged by a country with nuclear submarines, all terror on earth… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests.… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better.… — Lori McWilliam Pickert Copy Share Image
“Compulsion – nonconsensual education – requires violence; it requires complete control over what students put into their brain, the people they are… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections.… — Lori McWilliam Pickert Copy Share Image
“When I look at a child, I see a living, breathing person, made in God's image, for whom God has a plan.… — Elizabeth Foss Copy Share Image
“Maybe you’ve noticed what I’ve noticed, and thought it strange, or dismissed it as youthful foolishness or that you were missing some… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
“It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.” — William R. Bowen Copy Share Image
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the… — Edward Fiske Copy Share Image
“For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.” — William R. Bowen Copy Share Image
I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book… — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less… — Raymond S. Moore Copy Share Image