Childhood Quote by Alissa Quart

“Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have…

— Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest…

— Nancy Pearcey

A progeny of learning.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Systems of schooling are over managed and under led.

— Thomas J. Sergiovanni

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

— Daniel Quinn

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The nature of schooling as we know it has become the unquestioned answer to educating our children. It is not. Knowing what we now…

— Stephanie Pace Marshall

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning…

— James P. Comer

“It is worth while to point out the differing characters of a system and a method, because parents let themselves be run away with…

— Charlotte M. Mason

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

— Francis Chan

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have…

— Richard Livingstone