Well, my two littlest ones and I have been sick the last few days, so I’m just going to humbly offer up some more homeschooling-related quotes, as I had completely and utterly forgotten all about needing to post this week!
Enjoy!
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
-Aristotle
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education. -Smiley Blanton
Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. -Buddha
Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. -Al Capp
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. -GK Chesterton
Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. -Winston Churchill
All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted. -John Holt
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think. -Bertrand Russel
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. -Seymor Papert
What are some of your favorite homeschooling-related quotes?
Katie blogs about homeschooling, homemaking, and Catholic motherhood at Just Another Catholic Mom.
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“…what is commonly called education; that is, the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want to know.”
G k Chesterton
I love GK Chesterton, I think he’s one of the most quotable people there ever was! :)
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. – Anatole France
An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected. – Thomas Moore
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 American Founding Father & Scientist)