Quotes about Homeschooling

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We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freedom as we define it d — Gregory J. Millman, Homeschooling: A Family's Journey
There is nothing to be gained by pretending that academic involvement is necessary, or even always desirable, in the que — Christopher Langan
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. — Mahatma Gandhi
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people w — John Holt, Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so fo — Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. — Ezra Pound
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the — H.L. Mencken
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. — Ezra Taft Benson
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, — A.S. Neill
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. — Ivan Illich
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the val — David O. McKay
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. — John Maynard Keynes
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. — John Ruskin
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days i — Thomas Moore
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. — Roger Lewin
Self-education is the only possible education the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. — Charlotte M. Mason
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 be — John Holt
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. — John Taylor Gatto
The home is the chief school of human virtues. — William Ellery Channing