#homeschooling

"Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us."

"The home is the chief school of human virtues."

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

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

"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, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best"

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home."

"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."

"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."

"Karena kita tidak abadi, namun tulisan kita bisa abadi"

"Thank goodness my education was neglected."

"Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages."

"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."

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

"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."