A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. — Joseph Chilton Pearce 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
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
“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
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
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
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. — Plato 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that… — Marcus Aurelius 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
The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling… — Mike Bickle Copy Share Image
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“If a law violates a person’s liberty, is it not our duty to disobey? Is it not your ethical responsibility to act?… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the… — Ivan Illich 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
“A teenager’s nature is not laziness, their preferred state is not ignorance, and it is not necessary for extrinsic motivation to be… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“I’m sure if Socrates were alive today, and had to sit through even a single meeting discussing how to use data to… — 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
