“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
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. — Melinda Harmon Copy Share Image
“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” — Roger Lewin Copy Share Image
Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.” — Tim Fargo 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
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich 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
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
“Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled… — Jeanne Ray Copy Share Image
Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“It was my assumption that skilled teachers spent their days imparting important and meaningful knowledge to eager students. I also believed, as… — Brian Huskie 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
Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support.… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, I had stumbled upon one of the basic postulates of homeschooling: Anything you do with a home-schooled child outside… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
“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
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The key is to understand that our children don't belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be… — Voddie T. Baucham Jr 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
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
“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
“School vision statements often read something like, “We believe all kids can learn” or “life-long learners” or something silly like that. What… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“[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
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
“You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.” — Marilyn Howshall Copy Share Image
“All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.” — William R. Bowen 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
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