#homeschooling

"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."

"This book is not about "homeschooling"at all. School is an artificial institution contrived by man. This book is about educating a child in the heart of the family given to that child by his Creator."

"To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new."

"Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."

"We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people."

"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

"It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read."

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

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

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

"When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable."

"It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call 'motivation'. A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing."

"Thank goodness my education was neglected."

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

"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."

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

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

"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 better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all."

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