Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. — Melinda Harmon Copy Share Image
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
“Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.” — Tamara L. Chilver Copy Share Image
“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” — Elizabeth Foss 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
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
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
“All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.” — William R. Bowen 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
“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 and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be… — Gene Royer 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Notice the difference: A child’s disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool… — Sandra K. Cook 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
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