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.
How do I find joy in my homeschool journey?The answer is quite simple. I accept lots of God's grace. Grace to make mistakes. Grace to take a nap when I am exhausted. Grace to not feel guilty. Without...
Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
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...
curriculum companies provide more work than is needed. I never finished the complete curriculum when I taught in a classroom or at home. If your race is with your curriculum, learn to pick and choose...
... 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 bein...
I LOVE homeschooling and want others who have been led to do it to love it, too.
I want home educators to look beyond the lesson plans, curriculum, and grades to see the abundant blessings. My desire is for parents to enjoy the journey rather than focus on the destination.When you...
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
God will help you do it if you trust and lean on Him for guidance and strength.
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...
[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectua...
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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 enthu...
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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 hop...
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
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