Homeschool Quotes

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~ Gandhi

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was always at the foot of the class.
~ Thomas Edison

Never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
~ Albert Einstein

n the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
~ Mark Twain

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~ John Maynard Keyes

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
~ Albert Edward Wiggam

By bells and many other similar techniques [schools] teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point.
~ John Taylor Gatto

The greatest enemy of the excellent is the good.
~ American Proverb

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.
~ Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

A totalitarian state will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.
~ Adolf Hitler

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.
~ Melinda Harmon

Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
~ Wendy Priesnitz