Homeschooling Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Children, Skills, Giving

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  How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Education, Children, Stupid

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

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• Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

  Recalled on his death, 29 Jan 1963.

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• If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Flower, Teaching

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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

  Plato

  Education, Plato, Amusement

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.32, University Press of America

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• Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

  Charlotte Mason

  Learning, Thinking, Numbers

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

  Plato

  Leadership, Sports, Use

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teaching, Mean

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Support, Moral

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Sad, Education

  "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.

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• One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education reform, they should also be interested in how they conduct themselves in front of their children. If they are homeschooling their kids, they are even more exposed, so the idea is even more important.

  John Medina

  Children, Home, Kids

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Learning, Liberty

  The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

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• Education has for its object the formation of character.

  Herbert Spencer

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 2, ch. 17, 4

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• Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, School, America

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• 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

  Jobs, Children, Car

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• A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Home, Learning, School

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• The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.

  Jack Abramoff

  Issues, Office, Support

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• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

  Walter Scott

  Leadership, Educational, Learning

  Letter to J. G. Lockhart, c.16 June 1830, in H. J. C. Grierson (ed.) 'The Letters of Sir Walter Scott' vol. 11 (1936) p. 365

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• Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Character, Patriotic

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• Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

  Melinda Harmon

  Education, Children, Giving Up

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• Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Education, School, Prejudice

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