“ 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
“ There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the quest for truth and knowledge. Christopher Langan
“ This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. Sh… Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“ 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 tal… John Holt
“ Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it. Joyce Herzog
“ School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Ivan Illich
“ 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… H.L. Mencken
“ It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger… John Holt
