The Quotable Homeschooler
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re are some great, meaningful quotes to help inspire, encourage and support homeschoolers!
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ”
– William Butler Yeats
” 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.”
–John Holt
” The idea is to educate, not follow anyone’s schedule about when something should be studied. ”
–Ray Drouillard
“Educating a child is a natural process. Home schooling is nothing more than an extension of parenting.” ~Sue Maakestad
He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know. – George Simmel, German Philosopher
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child. – Plato
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” Flora Whittemore
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
-Ghandi
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
– Anonymous
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