“ To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go… Confucius
“ For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced Henry A. Giroux
“ About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return. Robert Graves
“ In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leader… Leah Hager Cohen
“ These days, many well-meaning school districts bring together teachers, coaches, curriculum supervisors, and a cast of thousands to determine what skills your child needs to be successful. Once these… Rafe Esquith
“ The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state. Jostein Gaarder
“ Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was t… Trenton Lee Stewart
“ Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do… Charlotte M. Mason
“ Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family. Rosie Thomas
“ Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV? Bruce Coville
“ I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep… Helen Keller
“ As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupi… Giacomo Casanova
“ It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra. H. Beam Piper
“ 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
“ …I’d let those entering (grad) students in on my secret—higher education is all about perseverance. It has nothing to do with smarts or creativity or anything else. It’s about cultivating the willingn… Melanie Wells
“ Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related… Richard Baxter
“ I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? Kathleen Norris
