“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
“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
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato 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
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
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
The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Anonymous 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
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
“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
“The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon… — Lori McWilliam Pickert 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
“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
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
“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
“Being lawful and following the rules means allowing their reality to become your reality, and their reality includes you pledging your allegiance… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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