And Homeschooling Quotes

Proverbs 16:3 'Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans.' A great reminder when planning out the school year. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. ~ Grover Norquist

More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it. ~ Quinn Cummings

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies. ~ Alfie Kohn

My best memory of school was probably leaving school. Because I hated that fucking place. ~ Troye Sivan

Homeschool Rules
1) Get out of your seat
2) Talk in class
3) Don't raise your hand
4) Kiss your teacher
5) Chew gum ~ Google Search Pictures "quotes"

All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy. ~ William R. Bowen

Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this. ~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his or her own car. But it is still the case that parents can perform the job of educating their children [homeschooling], in many cases better than our present education system. ~ Milton Friedman

Homeschooling is not head-to-head, it's heart-to-heart. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

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

Going to school is rarely a choice at all, but rather just the thing you do because everyone else does it. ~ Brian Huskie

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

I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

Paul's story is good news for those of us who are tempted to put our trust in ourselves, in our own ability to work hard enough to merit God's favor. Grace is so surprising! It's surprising because while it may seem likely that a prostitute would recognize her need for rescue, the homeschooling, bread-baking, devotion-reading mom who attends her local church faithfully (while trusting in her own goodness) will choke on the humiliating message of gospel rescue. Rescue? Why would she need rescuing? ~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. ~ John Taylor Gatto

Children are not only extremely good at learning; they are much better at it than we are. ~ John Holt

Without knowing it, I had stumbled upon one of the basic postulates of homeschooling: Anything you do with a home-schooled child outside the home can be described as a "field trip", thus rendering whatever activity you pursue a legitimate educational experience. ~ Quinn Cummings

I tend to agree with Robert Frost when he says, 'Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.' By this definition, I don't think anyone can claim that we are successfully educating this next generation. ~ Brian Huskie

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. ~ Nancy Pearcey

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. ~ Ezra Pound

When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ~ Elizabeth Foss

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. ~ Edward Fiske

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education. ~ Marilyn Howshall

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. ~ Ivan Illich

Thank goodness my education was neglected. ~ Beatrix Potter

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [ the book]ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. ~ Emma Donoghue

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

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Notice the difference: A child's disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his abilities are the focus in the homeschool environment. ~ Sandra K. Cook

The times I am most frustrated in homeschooling is when I become focused more on my plans than His plans. I must spend more time daily looking up for his divine direction than I do looking down at my lesson plans. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent. ~ Plato

The biggest mistake new homeschooling parents make is going into it with an 'all or nothing' mentality. That's a lot of pressure for something you've never done before... ~ Jacqueline Wilson, The Homeschool Super Freak

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~ John Maynard Keynes

Homeschooling moms are what remains of the leisured classes in these hurried, frantic days. ~ Cindy Rollins