Learning Quotes For Students

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A child miseducated is a child lost.

​thing. ~ Grace Koelma​


​mark of an ​

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

​they are not ​


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.

​the minds of ​


​, ​

​it's not trivial. It's a beautiful, serious and important ​


​163. It is the ​

​the community because ​


​ideas fresh from ​

​, ​


​not silly and ​

​knowledge, not of facts, but of values. ~ William S. Burroughs​


​139. Homeschooled children benefit ​

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.

​books, books teeming with ​


Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

​websites: ​

​187. Children's play is ​


​education is the ​

​ ~ Ken Robinson​


​time we have ​

​Information obtained from ​


​and unhurried atmosphere. ~ Kimberly Hahn & Mary Hasson​

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

​162. The aim of ​


​low and succeed.​

​113. And all the ​


​life is simple: "If I'm not learning, I'm dead."​

​in a consistent ​


Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

​find it. ~ Roald Dahl​


Education is… doing anything that changes you.

​opposite - we aim too ​


Education should be exercise; it has become massage.

​believe ~ Charlotte Mason​


​Leo. Eric's philosophy on ​

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

​on each child’s individual needs ​

​magic will never ​


​and fail - it’s just the ​

Friendship is a horizon – which expands whenever we approach it.

​it, and yet they ​


​and dad to ​

​relationships, to communicate values, and to focus ​


​161. Those who don't believe in ​

​aim too high ​


​is all impossible, and they know ​

​self-confessed cool nerd, a football fanatic, husband/right-hand-man to Grace ​


​time together–time to solidify ​

​the crowd. ~ Mary Kay Clark​


​isn’t that we ​

​other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it ​


It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

​Eric is a ​


Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

​a family more ​

​going along with ​


​us the problem ​

​other lands and ​


​Co-Founder​

​that it gives ​


​who benefited by ​

No man who worships education has got the best out of education…. Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

​138. For most of ​


​imagination, scenes laid in ​Eric Koelma​


​home education is ​

​a single saint ​


​it is beautiful. ~ Henri Poincare​

​tales of the ​


​the world. ~ Brene Brown​

​186. The beauty of ​


​saints, I cannot recall ​

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

​in it because ​

​112. Let children have ​


The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

​my soul with ​


​work of childhood. ~ Jean Piaget​

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

​lives of the ​


​in it, and he delights ​

​your child. ~ Anon​


The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

​way I share ​


​185. Play is the ​

The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

​160. In reading the ​


​because he delights ​


​incapable of teaching ​

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

​200. Creativity is the ​


​challenges and temptations. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger​

​creative capacities. ~ Ken Robinson​


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

​useful; he studies it ​


The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

​left you feeling ​

​child. ~ Edna Jaques​


To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

​a multitude of ​


Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

​out of their ​


We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

​because it is ​


​same system that ​

​wonder of a ​


​troubled waters of ​

​are educating people ​


​not study nature ​

​child into the ​


​With all the ​

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

​bridge over the ​


​is that we ​

​137. The scientist does ​


Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

​your child. Question putting your ​



​of the earth​that provide a ​-- and the result ​spirit to homeschool. I say 'feel the freedom.' ~ Davis Carman​ability to teach ​Behold the miracle ​strengths and convictions ​

​you can make ​with an independent ​111. Don't question your ​wild.​community, they have developed ​

​the worst thing ​of a rebel ​110. Strive for progress, not perfection ~ Unknown​beauty of the ​family and a ​where mistakes are ​be a bit ​Moore​

​And taste the ​support of a ​national educational systems ​136. You have to ​

​minds. ~ Raymond and Dorothy ​beg of you​consistent teaching and ​159. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running ​struggle. Support their thinking. Let Them Fly! ~ Anon​knowledge into their ​Go out, go out I ​because, having had the ​beautiful life ~ Hope Jahren​explore. Watch them discover. Encourage their questions. Allow them to ​than pressuring book ​Sam Manns​their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably ​recipe for a ​journey... Let them navigate. Push them to ​your children’s ‘hearts’ accomplishes far more ​​adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to ​discovery is a ​135. Learning is their ​understanding responses to ​​able to successfully ​derive happiness from ​Slow Learner. ~ Walter Barbie​

​powers. Providing warm and ​them to think. ~ Bertrand Russell​184. Home-schooled students are ​158. Being able to ​Who Is the ​the child’s physical, mental and spiritual ​want to teach ​of the originality. ~ Beatrix Potter​experience. ~ Denis Ian​Not the Child ​harmonious development of ​from the beginning. That’s if you ​rubbed off some ​experience: they have no ​Learned, Then It Is ​should be the ​

​of significant thoughts ​to school: it would have ​share one important ​Still Has Not ​109. The first education ​readers and thinkers ​was never sent ​gurus and self-imagined geniuses who ​Times, and the Child ​observer of nature. ~ Maria Montessori​
​solitude for them, and making them ​183. Thank goodness I ​
​… controlled by didactic ​Child a Thousand ​
​else, is a spontaneous ​candidly, providing privacy and ​to stop. ~ Robert John Meehan​become so disappointing ​

​134. If You’ve Told a ​108. A child, more than anyone ​little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them ​encouraging them not ​157. American education has ​

​of nature. ~ Richard Louv​low expectations. ~ John Taylor Gatto​when they are ​as we are ​~ Aristotle​joy and wonder ​a world of ​treating them seriously ​learns as long ​

​education at all ​can rediscover the ​imprison us in ​to think, you begin by ​

​slowly a child ​

​heart is no ​special places we ​impositions of others ​

​to teach children ​182. It shouldn't matter how ​without educating the ​
​to their own ​

​fears or the ​197. When you want ​learn. ~ Melanie Joy​

​156. Educating the mind ​children lead us ​let our own ​

​ ~ Sandra Dodd​plenty left to ​of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats​133. By letting our ​with life. Most of us ​they're small.​that there is ​a pail, but the lighting ​Jr​own self policing. So it is ​

​to do because ​enough to know ​the filling of ​education. ~ Martin Luther King ​imprisond by their ​

​to, instead of kid-things they have ​you are intelligent ​155. Education is not ​goal of true ​is removed, the fleas remain ​because they want ​place; it means that ​
​we need. ~ Richard Louv​

​- that is the ​freedom. After the lid ​doing adult things ​in the first ​154. The more high-tech we become, the more nature ​

​critically. Intelligence plus character ​their quest for ​get bigger from ​you were stupid ​in schools? ~ Mary Kay Clark​and to think ​jump so high. They give up ​196. Kids blossom and ​not mean that ​needs to be ​to think intensively ​

​quickly not to ​your hands. ~ Neil Gaiman​181. Educating yourself does ​written that it ​to teach one ​escape and learn ​you hold in ​creative. ~ Kim Raver​to be interaction, socialization. Where is it ​true education is ​lid trying to ​a dream that ​

​learn to be ​socialization. Wherever people congregate, there is going ​132. The function of ​short time, they hit the ​

​195. A book is ​awhile, that's how they ​153. Don’t worry about ​tolerance. ~ Helen Keller​for just a ​being good. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder​bored once in ​

​of it. ~ Ken Robinson​of education is ​on the container ​and just plain ​let kids get ​them make something ​130. The highest result ​put a lid ​

​helping each other ​180. I think it's necessary to ​is to help ​have four walls. ~ Anon​jump out. But if you ​and kindness and ​

​early in life. ~ Jane Austen​and our job ​128. A classroom doesn't need to ​shallow container they ​you happy. It is love ​taste for nature ​

​see the future, but they will ​

​the earth. ~ Walt Whitman​fleas in a ​have that make ​been given a ​

​the future. We may not ​and sleep with ​107. If you put ​the things you ​

​who have not ​they can face ​open air, and to eat ​picture. ~ Charlotte Mason​194. It is not ​to be pitied ​whole being so ​grow in the ​even a single ​drive, a need, a brain-building must-do. ~ Jeff Johnson & Denita Dinger​179. They are much ​to educate their ​

​the best persons. It is to ​really looked at ​important stuff. Play is a ​yourself to them. ~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger​152. Our task is ​the making of ​

​know in having ​stuff. Play is the ​because you gave ​books. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow​the secret of ​more than we ​all the important ​mean something to ​sweet serenity of ​127. Now I see ​of life; he is enriched ​in after completing ​of those you ​

​learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the ​rearing today. ~ Raymond S. Moore​picture, the common sights ​something to fit ​minds and hearts ​151. The love of ​education and child ​of seeing, as in a ​a luxury. It is not ​

​your resume, but in the ​all of ever. ~ Denis Ian​extravagant myth in ​beauty, upon his power ​frivolous. It is not ​is not in ​and shine for ​
​most dangerous and ​the child’s sense of ​193. Play is not ​

​of your life ​natural curiosities … and they’ll measure themselves ​‘socialized’ is perhaps the ​artist has upon ​solve. ~ Roger Lewin​

​178. The ultimate quality ​in their own ​order to be ​one or another ​than problems to ​away from you. ~ BB King​every command. Instead … help them indulge ​other youngsters in ​the influence that ​to remember rather ​

​can take it ​to shine on ​be around many ​105. We cannot measure ​give children answers ​that no one ​… or condition them ​

​children need to ​Random Knowledge ~ Anon​192. Too often we ​about learning is ​at every turn ​126. The idea that ​

​Education Wasted on ​are learning ~ Mr. Rogers​177. The beautiful thing ​childhood, don’t measure them ​one who can't read. ~ Mark Twain​104. H.O.M.E.W.O.R.K = Half of My ​practice what they ​school. ~ Winston Churchill​to blossom from ​no advantage over ​of our children. ~ Charles R. Swindoll​a chance to ​

​little place in ​a real thinker ​won't read has ​the memory banks ​191. Play gives children ​different and has ​150. If you want ​

​125. A person who ​make deposits in ​contagious as example. ~ La Rochefoucauld​in the young. Education is quite ​good book. ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen​

​all the time, happening by itself. ~ Grace Llewellyn​our lives we ​190. Nothing is so ​must be inculcated ​life is a ​hit you: learning was there ​Each day of ​out for you. ~ Jeannie Fulbright​institutions of control, where basic habits ​lead a better ​you built, and it will ​

​103. ​God has marked ​do with education... they are mainly ​inspires us to ​the solar oven ​me. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson​

​the path that ​necessarily much to ​149. Any book which ​literature, or trip over ​eaten; even so, they have made ​small discoveries on ​176. Schools have not ​~ William Arthur Ward​collection of Japanese ​meals I have ​of a million ​

​175. When one teaches, two learn. ~ Robert Heinlein​candle of learning ​up at your ​more than the ​the finish line; it's a journey ​

​them feel. ~ Maya Angelou​wick in the ​whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. One day, you will glance ​have read any ​a race to ​

​how you made ​148. Curiosity is the ​simple: forget about it. Think only about ​the books I ​189. Homeschooling is not ​did, they will remember ​

​exist. ~ Richard Louv​learning is so ​102. I cannot remember ​with healthy, curious, fully conscious minds. ~ Earl Gary Stevens​you said or ​in nature always ​123. In the end, the secret to ​for school, but for life. ~ Maria Montessori​

​to reach maturity ​of the day, people won’t remember what ​whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together ​my teacher. ~ Craig Harper​at preparing him ​possible for children ​174. At the end ​

​world is made ​I meet is ​child, therefore, does not aim ​helping make it ​

​optimal conditions. ~ Ken Robinson​moments when the ​a new lesson, and every person ​even a small ​197. Homeschooling is about ​to create the ​

​our stories. These are the ​my classroom, each day is ​101. The education of ​best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin​

​a gardener is ​this Earth, and to tell ​122. The world is ​what it is. ~ John Holt​knowledge pays the ​plant grow. The job of ​our love of ​and age doesn't define maturity. ~ Anon​don't always know ​

​196. An investment in ​not make the ​to our children ​121. Grades don't measure intelligence ​learning a lot, even if we ​H Wong​173. The gardener does ​to pass on ​world. ~ Voltaire​happily they are ​hours, days, even a lifetime. ~ Robin C. Moore and Herb ​it is. ~ Ivan Illich​a brief opportunity ​

​harm to the ​and energetically and ​children’s attention for ​the society as ​147. We have such ​will never do ​are learning fully ​attract and hold ​that you need ​

​for our children. ~ Mary Kay Clark​dance; these two amusements ​and when kids ​

​nature. Dirt, water, plants, and small animals ​makes you believe ​what is best ​120. Let us read, and let us ​100. Living is learning ​natural affinity towards ​advertising agency which ​

​and must demand ​lessons. ~ Raymond S. Moore​once. ~ C.S Lewis​195. Children have a ​172. School is the ​experiences and knowledge. We can know ​and less formal ​
​only reading it ​

​confidence. ~ Michelle Obama​the brain develops. ~ Diane Gordon​our own life ​peers, more creative freedom ​a book and ​learn, but I developed ​greatly influence how ​

​gave us, and confidence from ​and less of ​man really enjoying ​

​the ability to ​early years that ​graces which God ​school, more of parents ​99. I can’t imagine a ​skills, I didn't just develop ​

​experiences during the ​in ourselves, confidence in the ​and less of ​age ~ Charlotte Mason​194. Through my education, I didn't just develop ​

​the child’s relationships and ​to have confidence ​119. Recipe for genius: More of family ​arrived at that ​Happily Ever After. ~ L.R. Knost​cells being made. And it is ​146. We parents need ​education. ~ Mark Twain​until they have ​lead to a ​connections between brain ​and ourselves. ~ Ken Robinson​interfere with my ​direct intellectual efforts ​
​darkest reality can ​

​as an adults, with trillions of ​educate our children ​let my schooling ​abstain from requiring ​that even the ​twice as active ​the way we ​118. I have never ​seems better to ​

​than evil and ​years a child’s brain is ​systematically jeopardizing in ​teach. ~ John Taylor Gatto​children that it ​

​is more powerful ​ready to learn. During the preschool ​believe we are ​to offer can ​education for young ​that goodness truly ​171. Children are born ​thing that I ​function, not a profession. Anything with something ​

​wide field of ​gift of hope ​reading ~ B. F Skinner​achievement. And it's the one ​117. Teaching is a ​provided such a ​from reality, but in the ​a love of ​
​form of human ​

​learners. ~ Grace Koelma​and circumstances have ​brief literary escape ​books; we should teach ​source of every ​of self as ​is that nature ​not in a ​

​170. We shouldn't teach great ​145. Imagination is the ​learning, and ultimately, their true sense ​but the fact ​

​fairy tales lies ​your teacher. ~ William Wordsworth​beings. ~ Henry David Thoreau​form, is destroying children's love of ​or two earlier ​trial. The value of ​169. Let nature be ​true of human ​school, in its current ​beginning a year ​through trouble and ​self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost​the same is ​116. The institution of ​doubt capable of ​stones throughout life, leading the way ​

​temper or your ​core, and I think ​he lives. ~ Clay P. Bedford​six; they are no ​childhood are stepping ​without losing your ​are at the ​as long as ​when they are ​193. Fairy tales in ​

​to almost anything ​first, the sounder they ​the learning process ​definite ‘school’ education of children ​reason for learning. ~ Jeannie Fulbright​ability to listen ​trees grow at ​creating curiosity, he will continue ​98. We begin the ​of the real ​168. Education is the ​

​144. The more slowly ​to learn by ​ ~ Anne Campbell​on a test, we’ve lost sight ​go. ~ Mary-Anne Kohl​open the mind. ~ Denis Ian​can teach him ​

​a teacher.​to score well ​confidence as they ​the spirit and ​day; but if you ​equipped to be ​of learning is ​

​to think, developing skills and ​forces that jolt ​lesson for a ​a teacher, and you are ​

​192. If the purpose ​167. Art encourages children ​defined. Love. Creativity. Curiosity. Courage. Passion. And those special ​a student a ​parent, you also became ​an adult. ~ E. Jonesco​a great mind. ~ Ken Robinson​

​… because they can’t even be ​115. You can teach ​you became a ​existence, one has become ​can happen to ​that just can’t be measured ​age ~ Charlotte Mason​97. From the day ​gotten used to ​the best thing ​

​things in life ​arrived at that ​for my mindfulness. ~ Eric Koelma​seems familiar, when we have ​from school is ​about this … there are some ​until they have ​traffic is great ​

​astonish us. When the world ​166. Sometimes getting away ​143. But let’s be certain ​direct intellectual efforts ​in peak hour ​things cease to ​they learn ~ Ignacio Estrada​cease to grow. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo​abstain from requiring ​stressed out, flustered and sit ​childhood is when ​

​teach the way ​for learning. If you do, you will never ​seems better to ​morning school rush. Watching people get ​fresh and astonishing. The end of ​<

​way we teach, maybe we should ​142. Develop a passion ​children that it ​96. I love the ​in light, out of darkness, utterly new and ​can't learn the ​own education. ~ Walter Scott​education for young ​his own secret. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson​rose and bathed ​165. If a child ​

​hand in their ​wide field of ​the key to ​and wonder, as if creation ​granted. ~ Denis Ian​

​had the chief ​provided such a ​he only holds ​

​world of miracle ​they take for ​worth anything have ​and circumstances have ​and foreordained and ​191. Childhood is the ​or the cleverness ​have turned out ​is that nature ​do. It is chosen ​I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin​they can’t even see ​141. All men who ​

​but the fact ​shall know, what he shall ​I remember. Involve me and ​they have? And their talents ​true danger. ~ Richard Louv​or two earlier ​choose what he ​I forget. Teach me and ​passions they don’t even know ​ability to discern ​

​beginning a year ​for you to ​190. Tell me and ​them about the ​perception of community, risk to self-confidence and the ​doubt capable of ​respecting the pupil. It is not ​

​throughout their lives. ~ Robert M Hutchins​

​or that … why don’t we ask ​health, risk to children's concept and ​six; they are no ​

​education lies in ​to educate themselves ​asking them this ​physical and psychological ​when they are ​95. The secret of ​prepare the young ​of kids and ​are heightened, including risks to ​definite ‘school’ education of children ​~ Maria Montessori​education is to ​bubble-sheets in front ​children; but other risks ​114. We begin the ​of first importance ​189. The object of ​

​164. Instead of pushing ​some dangers to ​to introduce children. ~ Charlotte Mason​therefore a matter ​masters at work. ~ Michael Jackson​without accepting it. ~ Aristotle​140. An indoor (or backseat) childhood does reduce ​we can wish ​every child is ​is watching the ​entertain a thought ​but by parents. ~ Mary Kay Clark​subject to which ​the guide within ​in the world ​be able to ​shaped by peers ​thinkers upon every ​go up just ​188. The greatest education ​educated mind to ​

​94. To care for, and keep awake ​differently, we might find ​a tested theory. The assumption that ​the young, that the people ​way and grow ​Don’t ; but letting them ​

​let her children ​91. Let children alone... the education of ​~ Rachel Kovac​most damaging mindsets ​to be hoped ​always to be ​place where nothing ​wrong, but a wrong ​~ George Whitman​needs sufficient food ​to say about ​

​learn, and the probability ​way will they ​other children of ​home each day ​future. ~ Maria Montessori​respect is due, superior to us ​

​us, attending, say, a lecture that ​most of a ​to fit into ​of freedom. ~ George Washington Carver​and out of ​76. Do not let ​
​tell you where ​

​beautiful, is dimmed and ​and excitement. It is our ​which is called ​desire to make ​better than someone ​to the wall, or A's on report ​are small, by encouraging and ​child ~ George Santayana​it, and yet they ​tales of the ​they are fed ​69. Children are born ​because he hears ​time. ~ Rabindranath Tagore​exist. ~ Maria Montessori​to be able ​to teach...​be able to ​know it yourself. But only very ​or in the ​

​learn to be ​passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein​a love of ​ ~ Thomas Berry​should be seen ​

​test that teaches ​environment of beauty. ~ Maria Montessori​to learn, and much better ​from birth, very curious about ​of all I ​be teaching, but prevented me ​to introduce children. ~ Charlotte Mason​ideas fresh from ​

​survives formal education ​own inner genius ​to be filled, but a fire ​not made by ​to do. ~ John Holt​

​not how much ​and no teacher ​on the surface ​one has learned ​out the cleaning ​teach children, clean the house ​them to others. ~ Haim Ginott​

​45. If you want ​time to learn ​a race to ​more capable of ​them waste the ​be stilled to ​

​too little to ​41. Go forth and ​our problems using ​

​important than a ​to discover the ​on the mind. Therefore do not ​model. If you value ​the work of ​a relief from ​experiences is outdoors, in the natural ​experiences with the ​explore, learn and grow ​to thrive. Indoor and outdoor ​34. To make the ​man in mind ​any part of ​and learning; between the things ​

​received was through ​do something by ​who has learned ​is, I think, to have a ​Preschool​world with all ​… it’s the students ​standing army. ~ Edward Everett​isn’t a school ​the world is ​23. What is most ​natural law to ​who brought the ​children never listen ​simply not patient ​them for life. ~ Tamara L Chilver​family, it is not.” ~ Nikki Schaefer​full seven hour ​all true learning. ~ Leo Buscaglia​16. Education is not ​inevitable. ~ Elizabeth Foss​to turn mirrors ​there are a ​kids in a ​

​in all of ​8. Formal education will ​own ideas. ~ Agatha Christie​

​and have things ​destroy his standards, perhaps for life.” ~ C.S Lewis​is twenty, and when we ​subjects. No one has ​6. I think this ​the true joys ​on their own. And I’m angry at ​giving students a ​“taught” if they are ​5. Our entire school ​trusted. ~ Steve Goodier​

​is not always ​

​which you can ​patch of real ​Lyndon Johnson​Erich Fromm​Joseph Addison​Augustine of Hippo​Jean Piaget​Unknown​

​Carl Rogers​Chinese Proverb​Neil Postman and ​Albert Einstein​Derek Bok​Maya Angelou​E.R. Hazlip​Martin H. Fischer​

​George Washington Carver​William Butler Yeats​Martin H. Fischer​Ernest Dimnet​Martin H. Fischer​might later on ​things a little ​an unproven theory; it's not even ​idea, in instruction of ​

​go the right ​of Do and ​the mother to ​to light. ~ Allan Bloom​are “not math people ​88. One of the ​transmission of knowledge, there is little ​87. If education is ​can have a ​good idea gone ​is my school ​knowledge, for the mind ​have a lot ​teach; it's what they ​their own way, for what better ​the real world, alongside adults and ​sent away from ​possibilities of their ​beings to whom ​even an hour. How many of ​

​to do for ​free country not ​the golden door ​out of sight ​~ Alexandra K Trenfor​are those who ​for what is ​and beautiful, full of wonder ​him that light ​be governed, not by the ​

​that they are ​100 and tacked ​strong when they ​is an uneducated ​is all impossible, and they know ​70. Let children have ​

​a lifetime if ​far away. ~ Thoreau​companions, perhaps it is ​born in another ​

​I did not ​a teacher is ​being taught how ​in order to ​

​you had to ​the same day ​a while—that’s how they ​special talent. I am only ​of learning than ​lives.​the natural world ​

​given a test. In life you're given a ​live in an ​it, and master it. In short, much more eager ​57. Children are, by nature and ​when I think ​

​it professed to ​we can wish ​

​books, books teeming with ​miracle that curiosity ​and creative adults, they have their ​not a vessel ​exists who was ​

​don’t know what ​of character is ​a decent home ​mere veneer laid ​has forgotten what ​I’d rather hire ​a day to ​you say about ​each individual child. ~ Magda Gerber​small window of ​44. Childhood is not ​

​43. Children may be ​discourage our twelve-year-olds by making ​too lively to ​castle. Those shoulders are ​

​~ Albert Einstein​40. We cannot solve ​that is more ​be better able ​has no hold ​a good role ​ Play is really ​if it were ​place for these ​through their everyday ​

​to letting them ​for our children ​to society. ~ Theodore Roosevelt​33. To educate a ​while living and ​division between playing ​I have ever ​We learn to ​

​is the one ​you in life ​

​around them. ~ The Audubon Nature ​naturalists. They explore the ​teacher is that ​

​liberty than a ​schools, but that it ​for children’s growth into ​offspring. ~ Fr. John Hardon​binding in the ​22. The same ones ​21. Don’t worry that ​time we are ​exams, but to prepare ​‘school’ [might be] the best place. But for our ​

​hour with a ​end result of ​Pin for later!​encourages learning, the learning is ​of education is ​to wait because ​11. With thirty two ​

​9. Curiosity about life ​​to produce their ​to school nowadays ​dozen subjects we ​well before he ​to teach few ​their own. ~ Adam Robinson​

​no idea of ​getting an education ​year not just ​that must be ​

​Life. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois​to always be ​the safest path ​most powerful weapon ​in a little ​

​Ronald Reagan​Maya Angelou​B. F. Skinner​Sydney J. Harris​Robert Maynard Hutchins​Maria Montessori​Bill Beattie​Abraham Lincoln​

​G.K. Chesterton​Mahatma Gandhi​Chinese Proverb​Socrates​Mark Twain​George B. Leonard​Robert Frost​
​Edward James Olmos​

​George Carlin​Japanese Proverb​A. Bartlett Giamatti​were much slower ​will go, is also unfounded. If we did ​

​the farthest. But that's not only ​be an unspoken ​that they will ​and directions - a running fire ​as it enables ​movement from darkness ​notion that they ​man's future. ~ Maria Montessori​of a mere ​

​life. ~ John Holt​notion that we ​school is a ​85. All the world ​84. He requires much ​when the students ​

​not what we ​be happy in ​but lived, learned, worked, and played in ​

​homeschooled. They were not ​of the greater ​80. Children are human ​to do for ​79. We ask children ​citizen in a ​key to unlock ​crowd great ideals ​what to see ​

​75. The best teachers ​that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct ​fresh and new ​keep burning within ​the child should ​satisfaction of feeling ​and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked ​in children, which is so ​

​educated at school ​other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it ​ ~ Charlotte Mason​ever need. it will last ​which he hears, however measured or ​pace with his ​own learning, for he was ​working as if ​of success for ​to spend years ​

​extraordinary notion that ​could teach something ​learn, just not on ​bored once in ​62. I have no ​nurture a love ​events in their ​60. Teaching children about ​lesson and then ​58. The child should ​

​in exploring it, finding out about ​myself. ~ George Bernard Shaw​which infuriates me ​teach me what ​subject to which ​time we have ​54. It is a ​surrounded by curious ​52. The mind is ​the man, and no man ​behave when we ​50. The true test ​

​school equal to ​only possible education; the rest is ​remains after one ​mothers is that ​

​enough hours in ​the nice things ​is right for ​read, write, and count. Childhood is a ​credit for… ~ John Holt​

​for examinations. ~ Freeman Dyson​careful not to ​be wrinkled, those feet are ​build a snow ​we created them ​Earth? ~ Theodore Roszak​owe their young ​sort of amusement; you will then ​acquired under compulsion ​else about children’s behavior, there’s nothing like ​learning.​talked about as ​

​learning is fun. And the best ​35. Children learn best ​few. And above all, a parent committed ​create the conditions ​

​educate a menace ​play. ~ Penelope Leach​are ‘educational.’ The child learns ​there is no ​31. The best education ​~ Frank Serafini​who is educated ​can happen to ​discoveries to those ​26. Children are born ​

​as a homeschool ​better safeguard of ​school than the ​as a base ​upbringing of their ​the natural obligation ​

​you. ~ Robert Fulghum​ ~ Linda Hogan​

​speaks, that land speaks. Most of the ​prepare them for ​requirements..For some kids ​at an early ​

​17. Change is the ​now?​15. When the atmosphere ​12. The whole purpose ​toward each child. Children do have ​

​creative people. ~ Leo Burnett​you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn​​so forlornly unable ​all children go ​mediocrity in a ​very few things ​

​education today is ​actually achieve on ​battered egos. Most students have ​preventing them from ​of dollars each ​

​of passive students ​- it must teach ​fear is not ​3. I’ve learned that ​2. Education is the ​just get yourself ​Brigham Young​Walter Cronkite​President George W. Bush​Kahlil Gibran​

​Dr. Seuss​Martin Luther King, Jr.​Benjamin Franklin​Ezra Pound​Abraham Flexner​Leonardo Da Vinci​Aeschylus​

​Robert Frost​Rita Pierson​B.F. Skinner​

​G.K. Chesterton​Will Durant​Ralph Waldo Emerson​

​John Adams​Eliphas Levi​higher ~ John Holt​whose learning curves ​learning curve, the higher it ​fastest will go ​

​93. There seems to ​way and grow, having first secured ​with perpetual commands ​in so far ​90. Education is the ​is the false ​the bettering of ​same antiquated lines ​the rest of ​word go. It's a nutty ​I feel that ​does the body. ~ Charlotte Mason​

​the process. ~ Alfie Kohn​is far higher ​83. What matters is ​82. Allow children to ​just for children ​

​time, all children were ​their innocence and ​minds from wandering? Hardly any. ~ John Holt​adults are able ​society. ~ John Holt​

​duty of a ​77. Education is the ​of small things ​don't tell you ​

​we reach adulthood. ~ Rachel Carson​most of us ​74. A child’s world is ​endeavor always to ​73. Our care of ​Kappa keys, in short, for the ignoble ​

​work for petty ​love of learning ​

​71. A child only ​other lands and ​diet of ideas.​curiosity they will ​

​to the music ​does not keep ​child to your ​children are now ​66. The greatest sign ​knew you had ​beings get the ​65. People always understood, sensibly enough, that before you ​64. Every student can ​let kids get ​answer ~ Grace Koelma​more valuable to ​

​the most important ​~ Prabeena Kalyan​school and life? In school you're taught a ​most adults. ~ John Holt​them, and very energetic, resourceful and competent ​at home by ​

​to an extent ​only failed to ​thinkers upon every ​55. And all the ​~ Thomas Armstrong​53. When children are ​

​once was. ~ Maria Montessori​child who makes ​to do, but how we ​virtuous parent. ~ Gandhi​49. There is no ​48. Self-education is the ​

​47. Education is what ​

​me and other ​is just not ​improve, let them overhear ​the pace which ​a child can ​we give them ​their lives preparing ​42. We must be ​too young to ​

​a kite or ​we used when ​connection to the ​39. What do parents ​education be a ​

​38. Knowledge which is ​37. As with everything ​play is serious ​36. Play is often ​and trust, and when the ​pace. ~ Ainsley Arment​imaginative play, natural objects, interesting people, good books, art supplies, and organic experiences, to name a ​homeschooling life, we need to ​morals is to ​

​enjoyable is also ​does ‘just for fun’ and things that ​32. For a child ​other way. ~ John Holt​and change. ~ Carl Rogers​28. The only person ​

​luckiest things that ​environment, and communicate their ​way. ~ Patti Armstrong​lesson I learned ​24. Education is a ​is a better ​

​about the home ​mental, moral and social ​the world have ​are always watching ​to its story.​way that nature ​children not to ​to fulfill state ​to start school ​itself. ~ John Dewey​

​to read it ​13. Children spell love... T-I-M-E. ~ Dr. A. Witham​to wait for. ~ Nikki Schaefer​to cater education ​secret of great ​living; self-education will make ​<

​​that they seem ​is because nearly ​to be a ​more than a ​

​we can to ​much they can ​submissive students with ​same time actively ​tens of billions ​on the notion ​simply teach work ​the voice of ​the world. ~ Nelson Mandela​still and watch. ~ Lauren Hutton​if you can ​Clay P. Bedford​George Bernard Shaw​A.A. Milne​Ralph Waldo Emerson​

​Plutarch​Wendell Phillips​

​William Arthur Ward​Steven Spielberg​Robert Maynard Hutchins​Vladimir Lenin​Tallulah Bankhead​Victor Hugo​G.M. Trevelyan​Albert Einstein​William Butler Yeats​

​Edward Everett​Chinese Proverb​Walt Disney​John F. Kennedy​

​as high or ​out that people ​the steeper the ​who start the ​

​to fruitful purpose. ~ Charlotte Mason​go their own ​alone, not teasing them ​habit is successful ​89. School Uniform = School. Uniform. ~ Eric Koelma​

​that children (and adults) develop around math ​from it in ​conceived along the ​but learning happens, cut off from ​

​idea from the ​86. It's not that ​as much as ​both content and ​of real learning ​find? ~ Samuel Johnson​all ages. ~ Rachel Gathercole​to a place ​81. Once upon a ​by reason of ​doesn't interest us, can keep our ​day what few ​society, but to make ​

​78. It is the ​mind. ~ Charlotte Mason​the endless succession ​to look but ​even lost before ​misfortune that for ​

​intelligence. ~ Maria Montessori​him learn things, but by the ​else. ~ John Holt​cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta ​compelling them to ​72. We destroy the ​believe. ~ Charlotte Mason​imagination, scenes laid in ​upon a daily ​with all the ​a different drummer. Let him step ​68. If a man ​67. Don't limit a ​to say the ​~ John Holt​teach what you ​recently did human ​

​same way ~ George Evans​creative. ~ Kim Raver​63. I think it’s necessary to ​getting the correct ​61. It is far ​

​as one of ​you a lesson ​59. The difference between ​at learning than ​the world around ​might have learned ​from being educated ​

​56. My schooling not ​the minds of ​~ Albert Einstein​

​sparked into action ​to be kindled. ~ Plutarch​the child he ​51. It is the ​we know how ​

​equal to a ​of a child’s nature. ~ Charlotte Mason​in school ~ Albert Einstein​than the children’s learning. ~ Theresa Thomas​and cook well. The difference between ​46. It’s true there ​your children to ​and develop at ​

​see how quickly ​competent self-directed learning than ​

​best years of ​a funeral’s pace. ~ Charles Doyle​carry a burden, that brow is ​help him fly ​

​the same thinking ​warm and trusting ​child’s natural bent. ~ Plato​use compulsion, but let early ​play, your child will, too ~ Madeline Levine​

​childhood. ~ Fred Rogers​serious learning. But for children ​world. ~ Center for Families, Communities, Schools and Children’s Learning​people they love ​at their own ​environments rich with ​most of this ​and not in ​living that is ​

​he or she ​travel. ~ Lisa Ling​doing it. There is no ​how to learn ​happy childhood. ~ Agatha Christie​27. One of the ​of their senses, experiment in the ​that lead the ​

​25. The first real ​at all. ~ John Holt​not that it ​important and valuable ​

​provide for the ​children physically in ​to you; worry that they ​enough, quiet enough, to pay attention ​20. There is a ​19. I homeschool my ​day in order ​
​18. It is important ​

​preparation for life; education is life ​Don't have time ​into windows. ~ Sydney J. Harris​lot of children ​room, it is impossible ​it's aspects, I think, is still the ​make you a ​​arranged for them ​7. I suppose it ​force a boy ​time to do ​was wise; the greatest service ​
​of learning, and of how ​how school produces ​

​second-rate education, but at the ​

​to learn... Our country spends ​system is based ​
​4. Education must not ​the best path, and I’ve learned the ​use to change ​
​ground, real nature, real wood, real anything … and just sit ​1. Anything, everything, can be learned ​
​Oscar Wilde​Alfred Mercier​Ernest Hemingway​

​Franklin D. Roosevelt​William A. Ward​B.B. King​William Arthur Ward​

​Charles Weingartner​

​James Dewar​

​Robert G. Ingersoll​Mark Twain​Gail Goldwin​William Haley​Nelson Mandela​



​John Dewey​Claus Moser​
​Margaret Mead​​Benjamin Franklin​
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