School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.” — Marilyn Howshall 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
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.” — William R. Bowen 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular… — Colin Nissan Copy Share Image
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested… — John Medina 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
“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
“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
“This guy tried to kill me, he’s out there, and I’m going to blow his f***ng head off.' Nothing happened for a… — Brian Huskie 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
“Know what you’re working toward and eliminate debt, so that if you change your mind later it doesn’t kill you to know… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population… — Quinn Cummings 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
There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his… — Milton Friedman 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
“At then end of this experiment we call Alice's childhood, I imagine if she's as eager to move ahead with her passions… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
“I tend to agree with Robert Frost when he says, 'Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your… — Brian Huskie 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
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for… — Grover Norquist 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
“More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education,… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
“And there you sit, atop the smoking mountain of rubble that was once your home, covered in gray dust, cradling the mangled… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“I was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot,… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
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