“This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a… — Elizabeth Foss 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
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich 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
“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
“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
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
“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'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
“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” — Elizabeth Foss 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
“[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
“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
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. — Abraham Lincoln 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
“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
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“At the end of each day, Elizabeth read to me. She had shelves and shelves of children's classics, dusty hardcovers with stamped… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“We smashed their schools, burned them, and shot people based on the time of night they were outside. They dressed up like… — Brian Huskie 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
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
“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
