Too often we give children answers to remember rather than…

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve

— Roger Lewin

“It was my assumption that skilled teachers spent their days imparting important and meaningful knowledge to eager students. I also believed, as many of…

— Brian Huskie

“Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by…

— Edward Fiske

“Going to school is rarely a choice at all, but rather just the thing you do because everyone else does it.”

— Brian Huskie

“Know what you’re working toward and eliminate debt, so that if you change your mind later it doesn’t kill you to know you have…

— Brian Huskie

“I’m sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to inform instruction,…

— Brian Huskie

“Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.”

— Tim Fargo

“I tend to agree with Robert Frost when he says, 'Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or…

— Brian Huskie

“One of the biggest mistakes new homeschooling parents make is going into it with an 'all or nothing' mentality. That's a lot of pressure…

— Jacqueline Wilson

“School vision statements often read something like, “We believe all kids can learn” or “life-long learners” or something silly like that. What an absurd…

— Brian Huskie

It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel…

— John Holt

“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.”

— Charlotte Mason

“Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful, rigorous way is better. Freedom and…

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

“Our freedom of speech is not some cute, optional, anachronistic thing that you write about on a short answer quiz about school uniforms or…

— Brian Huskie

“You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.”

— Marilyn Howshall