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“A teacher and parent should always be on the same page. Its like pushing a stalled car, the car needs an extra push, but if the person driving pushes the car back while the person helping is trying to push it forward, the car will not move. Same with a student. If a teacher is trying to educate, the parent at home should be educating the same things.”

“Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.”

“And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.”

“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”

“Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”