109 Quotes About Homeschooling

Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.

Homeschooling is about growing and learning, not about being perfect.

The key is to understand that our children don't belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be limited by our own vision. I am a finite, sinful, selfish man. Why would I want to plan out my children's future when I can entrust them to the infinite, omnipotent, immutable, sovereign Lord of the universe? I don't want to tell God what to do with my children—I want Him to tell me!

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

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

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.