Best Homeschooling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“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.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

Author:John W. Gardner

“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”

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Author:David Guterson

“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”

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Book:Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense

Source: Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense

“Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.”

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Author:Quinn Cummings

“All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.”

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Author:Quinn Cummings

“Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.”

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Book:Education and the Social Order

Source: Education and the Social Order

“The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.”

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Author:Mike Bickle

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

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

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Author:Emma Donoghue

“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.”

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Author:Raymond S. Moore

“Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.”

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Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

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

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Author:John Hardon

“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.”

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Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important.”

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Author:John Medina

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

Source: Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”

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Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

“Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“Education has for its object the formation of character.”

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Author:Herbert Spencer

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”

Source: The Centaur

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

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

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Author:Ivan Illich

“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.”

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Book:H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism

Source: H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism

“It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.”

Source: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein

“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”

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Book:Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator

Source: Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator

“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.”

Source: An autobiography

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”

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

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

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

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.”

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Book:Farewell to Reason

Source: Farewell to Reason

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”

“Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.”

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Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

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