Top Homeschooling Quotes

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

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.

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 th...

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.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

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...

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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...

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

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...

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the chil...

Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

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 ed...

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

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...

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

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 o...