“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” — Elizabeth Foss Copy Share Image
“Going to school is rarely a choice at all, but rather just the thing you do because everyone else does it.” — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.” — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“I’m sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the… — Richard Mitchell 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
“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
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
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the… — Helen Keller 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
“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
“How many of us have read history, and shook our heads and puffed our chest, and said, “If I were alive during… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone… — Martine Millman Copy Share Image
“Each of us is born with a crazy passion to learn. Each of us craves knowledge of our world and our place… — Ps Pirro 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
“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
“Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.” — Marilyn Howshall Copy Share Image
“Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.” — Tamara L. Chilver Copy Share Image
“All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.” — William R. Bowen Copy Share Image
“To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something… — Lori McWilliam Pickert Copy Share Image
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are… — Alfie Kohn 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
“We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is… — Diane Flynn Keith Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for… — Rachel Gathercole 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
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
What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it… — John Holt 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
