Homeschooling Quotes - Page 3

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  B. F. Skinner

  Graduation, Education, Teacher

  New Scientist 21 May 1964

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• A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Reading, Learning

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• Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society.

  Bertrand Russell

  Home, Diversity, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.46, Routledge

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• My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Learning, Ideas

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• The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.316, Verso

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  Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Stupid, School

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Teaching

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

  Ezra Pound

  Education, Real, Learning

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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• It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Believe

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Story of My Life".

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• The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.

  Mike Bickle

  Mom, Teacher, Prayer

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• The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, Learning, Advancement

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• 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. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

  H. L. Mencken

  Educational, Simple, Ideas

  H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.222, Regnery Publishing

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• School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

  Ivan Illich

  Education, Believe, Learning

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Self, Guy

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2014.

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Teaching, Learning

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• Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Parent, Mind

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

  John Hardon

  Prayer, Giving, World

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• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

  Edward Everett

  Education, Freedom, War

  "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.

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• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Teaching, School

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

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Hymns, Might

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About 'Room'". The New Yorker Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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