Top 93 Homeschool Quotes
#1. The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.
Jerry Falwell
#2. Dear Homeschool Mom, You've got this! God called you to it, and He will see you through it. Inhale Grace. Exhale Doubt.
Tamara L. Chilver
#3. I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.
Tamara L. Chilver
#4. Homeschool doesn't give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It just
gives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone's lame Facebook joke.
Kim Culbertson
#5. We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#6. I pray moms will use ... [my] book[s] as a reference to arm themselves with God's grace and His Word to break away from the enemy's bondage and begin to experience peace and freedom in their homeschool journeys right away.
Tamara L. Chilver
#7. God ordained your family and your homeschool. It was His idea. You answer to God alone. Really.
Jamerrill Stewart
#8. I want to help with bullying because there are girls who can't just up and homeschool and focus on their career.
Demi Lovato
#9. Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections.
Ron Paul
#10. I am really committed to my faith journey, and I am committed to my family. My husband and I have been married for almost 30 years, and we homeschool our kids. We have a different working-out-of the-box family, but we do make it work, obviously with God's grace, and we are very grateful for that.
Jodi Benson
#11. Throughout the past decade of ministry work, my most meaningful and rewarding project has been Grace for the Homeschool Mom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#12. I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.
Jodi Benson
#13. Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.
Raymond S. Moore
#14. Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods.
Lisa Whelchel
#15. Notice the difference: A child's disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool environment.
Sandra K. Cook
#16. Regarding school vs. homeschool
If it works, send them there!
If it doesn't, don't import it.
Joyce Herzog
#17. I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.
John Hodgman
#18. Adding FUN to learning creates the best educational experience possible.
Tamara L. Chilver
#19. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Ezra Pound
#20. If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#21. When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.
That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.
Tamara L. Chilver
#22. For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears.
Michael Ben Zehabe
#23. Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.
John Holt
#24. Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.
Tamara L. Chilver
#25. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
#26. 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
#27. Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.
John Holt
#28. The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but humans could not go where they were. According to Greek mythology, Tartarus was an imposed condition for bad gods
not bad humans. (page 10)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#29. Learning and education are a normal part of everyday life and do not need a vast expensive bureaucracy to force them to happen.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#30. The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.
Tamara L. Chilver
#31. We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.
Karen Glass
#32. It isn't my teaching credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It is my God who qualifies me.
Tamara L. Chilver
#34. 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.
Tamara L. Chilver
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be.
Tamara L. Chilver
#38. Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
Tamara L. Chilver
#39. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
James Beattie
#40. Life's most important lessons are not found in the lesson plans.
Tamara L. Chilver
#41. All this impressing, talking, sitting, walking, and getting up together takes the investment of time. The day in and day out living the life of faith.
Jamerrill Stewart
#43. Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded.
"You would never do any work." (Nate's mom)
"Sounds perfect!
Brandon Mull
#44. Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
John Taylor Gatto
#45. By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.
Tamara L. Chilver
#47. I t was a well-known fact among Christian homeschoolers that public
schools were bastions of gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, rap music, pop culture, secular humanism, witchcraft, and body piercings.
Josh Sundquist
#48. I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.
Tamara L. Chilver
#51. I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.
Tamara L. Chilver
#52. All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott
#53. 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
#54. School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.
John Taylor Gatto
#55. It's not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It's my God who made me qualified when I became a mom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#56. [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.
Raymond S. Moore
#57. 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
#58. Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
John Ruskin
#59. Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are.
John Holt
#60. Change the world one "what-about-socialization" question at a time, my friend.
Jamerrill Stewart
#61. God will help you do it if you trust and lean on Him for guidance and strength.
Tamara L. Chilver
#62. Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Charlotte M. Mason
#63. The philosophy of project-based homeschooling - this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers - is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children.
Lori McWilliam Pickert
#64. The secret to successful homeschooling is faithfulness - consistency if you rather.
Pam Barnhill
#65. The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#66. Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#68. 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.
John Holt
#69. The enemy will do anything to rob my joy of homeschooling and parenting. He wanted me to live in bondage and feel guilty and like I was never doing enough to have me miss the real joy of just being home with my children.
Tamara L. Chilver
#70. 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
#71. The times I am most frustrated in homeschooling is when I become focused more on my plans than His plans. I must spend more time daily looking up for his divine direction than I do looking down at my lesson plans.
Tamara L. Chilver
#72. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Ezra Taft Benson
#73. You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
Marilyn Howshall
#74. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#75. 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
#76. And the truth is that by homeschooling, you're doing something that a large part of society isn't doing. Being different is a ministry.
Jamerrill Stewart
#77. And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person
not a fleshly person, but a person nonetheless. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#78. I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right," George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.
Sarah Brazytis
#79. 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
#80. [The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.
Walter Karp
#81. 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
#83. 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.
Tamara L. Chilver
#84. 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
#85. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
#86. Let's take some extra time to talk about one: Only the number one can create all numbers with this simple equation, 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321. One, expressed nine times, multiplied by itself, produces all subsequent numbers progressively and then inversely. Zero is not a number.
Michael Ben Zehabe
#87. Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows.
Tamara L. Chilver
#88. Parents naturally want their children to excel in every area of academics and extra-curricular activities, but the reality is- God made each child differently for His purpose. He never intended for our children to excel in everything.
Tamara L. Chilver
#89. Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.
Charlotte M. Mason
#90. School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
#91. God has a plan for you (Jer. 29:11) and you will make it through this time of testing. Keep on believing and moving forward and you will see Him working out the details. God is never early or late but His timing is always perfect. You will see, I promise.
Tamara L. Chilver
#92. To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on - not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.
Lori McWilliam Pickert
#93. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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