Homeschooling Quotes Wise Words
"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."
~Mahatma Gandhi"When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable."
~Elizabeth Foss, Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms. If it injures the intelligence, it is bad; if it injures the character, it is vicious; if it injures the conscience, it is criminal."
~Amiel
"Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages."
~Rachel Gathercole, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling"Education is imposed ignorance."
~Noam Chomsky"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."
~Agatha Christie"To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new."
~Wendy Priesnitz"Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature."
~Charlotte Mason"The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best"
~Alexander Sutherland Neill"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."
~David O. McKay"I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying."
~Martine Millman, Homeschooling: A Family's Journey"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn~all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."
~Julia Ward Howe"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
~John W. Gardner"An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them~Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected."
~Thomas Moore"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
~John Maynard Keynes"It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read."
~Ezra Taft Benson"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."
~H.L. Mencken"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
~John Ruskin"Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. "Leadership qualities" are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders."
~John Holt, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling"You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever
seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonimous
words."
~Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey"We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it doesn't mean doing what you want. Freedom means the ability to make choices that are good for you. It is the power to choose to become what you are capable of becoming, to develop your unique potential by making choices that turn possibility into reality. It is the ability to make choices that actualize you. As often as not, maybe more often than not, this kind of freedom means doing what you do not want, doing what is uncomfortable or tiring or boring or annoying."
~Gregory Millman, Unknown Book 8492994"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."
~John Taylor Gatto"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."
~G.K. Chesterton"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."
~Albert Einstein
"The home is the chief school of human virtues."
~William Ellery Channing
"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."
~Richard Mitchell"It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing."
~John Holt"Thank goodness my education was neglected."
~Beatrix Potter
"Nobody rises to low expectations."
~Calvin Lloyd"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."
~Diane Flynn Keith
"You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education."
~Marilyn Howshall
"When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition."
~Brian S. Wesbury"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."
~William Howard Taft
"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."
~Edward Fiske"Karena kita tidak abadi, namun tulisan kita bisa abadi"
~Maria Magdalena, Anakku Tidak (Mau) Sekolah"This book is not about "homeschooling" at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his Creator."
~Elizabeth Foss, Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home"When I look at a child, I see a living, breathing person, made in God's image, for whom God has a plan. As parent educators, we need to embrace a new notion of learning...we need to engage the hearten order to effectively educate the child. Our vision of a well-educated child is a child who has a heart for learning, a child who has the tools he needs to continue to learn for a lifetime and a child who has the love to want to do it."
~Elizabeth Foss, Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home
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