#schooling

Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences. They have something to contribute. They want to be a part of things. It’s up to us to give them the opportunity to express their creativity, explore widely, and connect with their own meaningful work. ↗

— Lori McWilliam Pickert

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You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education. ↗

— Marilyn Howshall

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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep. ↗

— George Pelecanos

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

— Elizabeth Foss

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There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#education

Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are commonly chaired by the executives of large companies. ↗

— Alfie Kohn

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All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#family

It is no wonder that Satan hates the family and has hurled his venom against it in the form of Communism. ↗

— William R. Bowen

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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. ↗

— Gene Royer

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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonimous words. ↗

— Jane Austen

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