109 Quotes About Homeschooling

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

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.