Top 93 Quotes About Homeschooling
#1. I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.
Tamara L. Chilver
#2. 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.
Mike Bickle
#3. 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
#4. Homeschooling is more than Latin and Logic. It is a way of life. And that way of life includes having disciplined children, and encouraging loving relationships within the family. We want peace in our homes.
Laurie Bluedorn
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. One of the beauties of homeschooling is that it allows us to recognize and nurture each one of our very special individual children.
Anonymous
#8. The primary focus of homeschooling should be on cultivating hearts for the Lord.
Tamara L. Chilver
#9. If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom.
Tamara L. Chilver
#10. I was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot, prostitution and gambling, they had to outlaw something.
Quinn Cummings
#11. I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.
Tamara L. Chilver
#12. 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.
Jan Hunt
#13. Without knowing it, I had stumbled upon one of the basic postulates of homeschooling: Anything you do with a home-schooled child outside the home can be described as a "field trip", thus rendering whatever activity you pursue a legitimate educational experience.
Quinn Cummings
#14. 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.
Lisa Whelchel
#15. I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.
Emma Donoghue
#17. 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.
Nancy Pearcey
#18. I do a kind of homeschooling where some of it's on the computer and some of it's classes around the city. So sometimes I'll have a class in the morning or do school at home.
Lilla Crawford
#19. I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.
Nolan Gould
#20. 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
#21. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.
Quinn Cummings
#22. 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.
Jack Abramoff
#23. When we talk about homeschooling today, we're amazed at how many people agree that they didn't learn much in school, that school teaches kids to pass the test and move on rather than explore and investigate and inquire...
Linda Dobson
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. [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
#28. You must pray ... without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.
John Hardon
#29. The secret to successful homeschooling is faithfulness - consistency if you rather.
Pam Barnhill
#30. Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
Jodi Benson
#31. 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
#32. The real legacy of Christian homeschooling is people who grow to adulthood and influence a new generation of children. And the greatest tribute possible to the homeschooling parent is to see that work carry forward.
Alexandra Swann
#33. 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
#34. 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.
Quinn Cummings
#35. It is also important to remember that no state in the United States requires a homeschooling parent to have a public school teaching certificate, just as many private schools do not require one (though some, such as Montessori and Waldorf, require teacher training in their unique programs). The
Patrick Farenga
#36. Homeschooling is a journey not a destination, always seek to improve what you are doing and teach with a mind that is open to new possibilities and experiences.
Tina Razzell
#37. Cultivating strong family bonds is a natural side effect of homeschooling as we pursue our interests, share chores and simply enjoy one another's company.
Laura Grace Weldon
#38. I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco
#39. I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.
Rebecca Stead
#40. My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
Grover Norquist
#41. A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
#42. I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
Saint Augustine
#43. We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
#44. Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Confucius
#45. Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.
Ezra Pound
#46. 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
#47. 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
A.S. Neill
#48. Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies.
Alfie Kohn
#49. Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled there, I no doubt would have insisted on home schooling.
Jeanne Ray
#51. 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
#52. Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes
#53. When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.
Elizabeth Foss
#54. All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.
William R. Bowen
#55. Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.
John Holt
#56. Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.
Tamara L. Chilver
#57. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Children, who once looked to their parents for leadership, now turn to their teachers for knowledge, their peers for wisdom, and their music and televisions for entertainment.
David D'escoto
#61. 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
#63. Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
John Taylor Gatto
#64. 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
#65. It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism.
William R. Bowen
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.
Kytka Hilmar-Jezek
#69. You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
Marilyn Howshall
#70. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Ezra Taft Benson
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Regarding school vs. homeschool
If it works, send them there!
If it doesn't, don't import it.
Joyce Herzog
#74. Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else's house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I'll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.
Ruth Beechick
#75. For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.
Anthony M. Esolen
#76. Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are.
John Holt
#77. More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it.
Quinn Cummings
#78. Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
John Ruskin
#79. 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
#80. Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Noam Chomsky
#81. 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
#82. At then end of this experiment we call Alice's childhood, I imagine if she's as eager to move ahead with her passions as the graduates I'd just met, and as fond of her family as these kids seemed to be of theirs, I'll have my answer.
Quinn Cummings
#83. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.
Marcus Aurelius
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#88. School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
Ivan Illich
#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. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
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