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INSPIRING QUOTES ABOUT HOMESCHOOL AND EDUCATION
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These are our favorite education and homeschool quotes:
- “If we weren’t so intent on forcing people to conform, there would be a lot more homeschooling going on. That’s my final answer.” – John Holt
- “True education must develop from within outward… It cannot be imposed from without.” – Maria Montessori
- “There is only one path that leads to contentment: a life lived in close contact with reality as it is—a life in which we are responsible for our own happiness. This is not a matter of choice, but of necessity; the only alternative to it is permanent unhappiness.” – John Holt
- “The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” -Morton W. Jones
- “It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)
- “It is a waste of time to force a child to learn anything.” – John Taylor Gatto
- “It’s much more important to make sure your kids are happy and productive than that they be educated.” – Frank Herbert
Quotes on Homeschool, Learning, and Education
“We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.” – John Holt
“There is a natural order and rhythm of things. The busy parents who rush their kids from school to team practice to dance class may think they are providing ‘quality time,’ even an enriched education, but what they’re really doing is destroying the child’s chance for real education.” – Sarah Bower
“We have been spending the best years of our lives teaching children how to read, write, count, and obey laws. We’ve made them believe that this is what they’re for.” – John Taylor Gatto
“The best things in life are never taught. They’re caught.” – Richard Bach
“Homeschooling isn’t for everyone. It is for people who are willing to ask the question, ‘Why?’ It is for those who value their time and see no reason why it should be spent doing more than one thing at a time. It is for those who enjoy working with young children and find adults rewarding to work with as well.” – John Holt
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” –Albert Einstein
“In one of our most important decisions, we decided to teach our children at home. I don’t think that my father [historian and teacher Dr. David Garrad McCullough Sr.] knew how right he was when, for years, he urged us kids to call upon him in any emergency, but not to bother about our homework. I’ve been homeschooling ever since, and I love it.” – David McCullough
“It’s not about what you know; it’s about what you can imagine.” – Marilyn Neiman
“When you teach your children, you teach your children’s children.” – Native American saying
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” -Albert Einstein
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
“If I had my way, I would build a school on top of a mountain and make the teacher climb up to it.” -Abraham Lincoln
“Children have a natural love for the truth, but even when they possess it in clear outline form, they do not trouble themselves to analyze and define it. It is the common lot of humanity to use words without knowing what they mean.” – Marietta Jaeger
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“We need to get kids out in the woods and learn from a natural source, not an artificial classroom. We need to be working with trees and plants instead of books and computers.” – Gary Larson (The Far Side)
“If you tell a child they are smart or good at something, they will believe it. But if you tell them they look good or are handsome or beautiful…they don’t really know what to do with that.” – Unknown
“I would be the first to advocate education for all our people in the sense of intellectual training, cultural and technical; but education is not synonymous with mere school attendance. Education implies beginnings before schooling begins, it suggests itself as a continuing process rather than a series of graduated stages…. what are schools if they are not our society acting upon itself?” – John Dewey (1859-1952, American philosopher and educator)
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born physicist)
“The education of the child is a work of love.” – Maria Montessori
“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” – Ruth C. Simkin
“All education has to be life-education.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“I don’t think you can force a child to learn. That’s how you make them stupid.” – A.S. Neill
“I believe in the power of imagination to transform experience and practice, in self-reflection as an approach to learning, and in the possibility of building partnership with those who are not like me or do not come from my place of origin to struggle alongside me for authenticity, mutuality, and justice.” – Bell Hooks
“I don’t think learning should be compulsory-forced. I am suspicious of people who say that ‘education’ must be treated as a basic human right…Once you teach people that it’s a right, then they’re entitled to it and you’ve lost control of the situation. You are going to have a lot of people who will claim that right but don’t want to do any work for it.” – John Holt
“The principal effect of public schooling has been that by the time most Americans get through 12 years of it, they’re ready to be finished with education. They’re bored to death and they have no desire at all to go on for more schooling.” – John Holt
“Homeschooling will become more popular as people figure out they can do it well because it’s not hard to evaluate yourself-it’s just hard to stand back and evaluate yourself. You know exactly what you’ve been teaching them because they’re in the house with you all the time. You can tell how much progress they are making.” – Dr. William P. Sears
“You must always continue to learn in order to keep growing and advancing in your chosen career. In this way you’re able to give more of yourself each time, and that’s what it’s all about: giving of yourself. There are no shortcuts. Anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something.” -Shannon L. Alder
“The value of homeschooled children is not measured by test scores or years served in the classroom but rather by the rare qualities they already possess: self-discipline, imagination, and a love for learning.” – Dr. William P. Sears
“Our schools are, among other things, factories that turn out competence, which is to say, people who cannot imagine anything better than what they are told is possible. The most dangerous and difficult-to-change social commandment today is ‘Thou shalt not question authority.'” – John Taylor Gatto
“Schools are designed on an assembly line model with the objective being to get kids in and out at top speed. And school administrators are just as bewildered by the process as the students. They are not aware of what’s really happening, either.” – John Taylor Gatto
“Schools aren’t designed to make students feel smart or special—that would be too risky. The system’s defensive strategy is to help everyone else feel superior by creating an atmosphere where only the superstars can excel and everyone else must settle for good enough.” – Annie Murphy Paul
“There is no question that homeschooling can be done badly. It can also be done quite well. The one thing it cannot be, however, is mediocre.” – John Holt
“I think the biggest reason why kids like to homeschool is because they get to do what they want when they want and where they want.” – John Holt
“If there is anything any sort of school system ought to be able to do, it would be work out a way for a student on his or her own schedule and at home to get the education they needed.” – David Guterson
“There’s something about being home alone with your child that feels a little bit like freedom for both the parent and the child.” – David Guterson
“There are many teachers who do not know the difference between education and socialization… (they) believe that their job is to form good little members of society… They do not realize that if you form a child into a good member of society, he will not be able to think for himself, and will grow up to be an inferior sort of person.” – A.S. Neill
“There should not be any fear in being yourself. If there is fear, the teachers have failed.” – A.S. Neill
“You cannot gain knowledge by destroying innocence. To have understanding you must preserve innocence. Then, when there is no longer any danger of harm occurring to the child from his environment, he may learn how to avoid such dangers, and this seems perfectly natural and not a matter for punishment at all.” – Frank Herbert
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty.” -L. Frank Baum
“Education is not the amount of knowledge, but the development of character.” – Maria Montessori
“The best classroom is a multisensory environment, where kids are constantly moving and doing things.” – John Taylor Gatto
“If we were to wait for the social sciences to tell us what to teach our children, we would forever be waiting.” – John Taylor Gatto
“When you put a school in every neighborhood, they become places where the young are to be regimented and controlled – taught to march in lines, obey their superiors, believe what they’re told, submit to frequent testing.” – John Taylor Gatto
“The best education is not so much to know Latin and Greek, as to know men and women; for in every city he that knows people may always find some who know things.” -William Penn
“Schools are not preparing students for the world of work; they now do little more than prepare students for further schooling.” – John Taylor Gatto
“Part of the education of a man is to learn how to bring out of himself that which he already knows.” – Solomon ibn Gabirol, Jewish poet, philosopher, and savant
“The really important things in life are seen, not heard.” – Joseph Joubert (Dr. Maria Montessori used this quote to describe her philosophy of education)
“Look for the beauty in everything around you, for that is what becomes your soul.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates (470-399 BC)
“The trouble with school is that it takes so long to be able to say what you know.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.” – Marie Curie (first female recipient of Nobel Prize for Physics. 1867-1934)
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“A great teacher gives us just a taste of knowledge. And we are forever hungry for more.” -Benjamin Disraeli
“A good teacher must have an understanding of children. He must know why they are inattentive, what distracts their attention, and how they can be made interested.” -B. F. Skinner
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” -Derek Bok
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” -Aristotle
“The most important education is the one you give your kids at home.” –Billy Graham
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” –C. Northcote Parkinson
“Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.” -James Freeman Clarke
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
“The only sure things in education are the ideas that work and the ideas that don’t work. Everything else is arguable.” -June Jordan
“Always learn from experience. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, Then the lesson.” -Vernon Law
“Education must provide the opportunities for self-development; it can at best provide the means to develop oneself.” -Eugene Ehrlich
“A great school is one that inspires a life time of healthy curiosity.” -Terri Guillemets
“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
“You can observe a lot just by watching.” -Yogi Berra
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead: it can only serve.” – Albert Einstein
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