151 Quotes About Homeschool

Yes I am homeschooled, no I am not a friendless weirdo.

God ordained your family and your homeschool. It was His idea. You answer to God alone. Really.

And the truth is that by homeschooling, you're doing something that a large part of society isn't doing. Being different is a ministry.

He [the teacher] knows that children's minds hunger at regular intervals as do their bodies; that they hunger for knowledge, not for information, and that his own poor stock of knowledge is not enough, his own desultory talk has not substance enough; that his irrelevant remarks interrupt a child's train of thought; that, in a word, he is not sufficient for these things.

Perhaps overabundance has made us feel even more empty. Perhaps being surrounded by so much excess just makes us crave it even more.

All this impressing, talking, sitting, walking, and getting up together takes the investment of time. The day in and day out living the life of faith.

The secret to successful homeschooling is faithfulness - consistency if you rather.

To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise but a meaningful, self-chosen undertaking.

The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities.