Homeschooling Quotes

• 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

  Hands, Years, Odds

  Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin

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• 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

  Encouragement, Book, Eight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, Reading, Class

  "The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling". Book by Quinn Cummings, 2012.

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• The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

  David Guterson

  Children, Memorization, Needs

  David Guterson (1992). “Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense”, Harcourt

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• Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

  Quinn Cummings

  Children, School, Together

  "The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling". Book by Quinn Cummings, 2012.

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• We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.

  David Guterson

  School, Pressure, Problem

  "When Schools Fail Children: An English Teacher Educates His Kids at Home". Harper's Magazine, November 1990.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Teacher

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, Education, Teacher

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• 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

  Education, Children, Learning

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.62, HarperCollins UK

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• [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

  School, Creative, Parent

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• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Educational, Taught

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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Teaching

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  Beatrix Potter

  Education, Memorable, Learning

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• 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 take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Life Lesson, Teaching

  "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.

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• Thank goodness my education was neglected.

  Beatrix Potter

  Goodness, Neglected

  Beatrix Potter (2005). “Beatrix Potter: Artist & Illustrator”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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• When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• 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

  Children, Parent, Topics

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.113, New Society Publishers

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• Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

  Erich Fromm

  Education, Children, Learning

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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