Homeschooling Quotes

Homeschooling Quote of the day

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

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

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.

Notice the difference: A child’s disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool environment.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.

Education is a system. Learning is an ongoing every day process.

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it.

Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year.

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind, nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

Children, who once looked to their parents for leadership, now turn to their teachers for knowledge, their peers for wisdom, and their music and televisions for entertainment.

Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony Express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all.

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.