Homeschooling Quotes

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

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

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

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

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

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.

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.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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.

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

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

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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.

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

[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.

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.

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. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

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.

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

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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.

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

Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

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.

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.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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.

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.

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

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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

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.

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.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.