"I suppose it is because nearly all chldren go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas."
~ Agatha Christie
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told how a lecture he received at the age of nine helped set his philosophy of life: an uncle, a stolid, no-nonsense type, had taken him for a long walk across a snow-covered field. at the far side, his uncle told him to look back at their two sets of tracks. "See, my boy," he said, "how your foot prints go aimlessly back and forth from those trees, to the cattle, back to the fence, and then over there where you were throwing sticks? But notice how MY path come straight across, directly to my goal. You should never forget this lesson!"
"And I never did," Wright said, grinning. "I determined right then not to miss most things in life, as my uncle did."
"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school."
~ Melinda Harmon, Federal Judge, 1996
"Education is not the filling of a bucket, it is the lighting of a fire."
~ William Butler Yeats
"It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grace mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
~ Albert Einstein
"I have never let schooling interfere with my education."
~ Mark Twain
"The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders."
~ John Taylor Gatto, NY City and State Teacher of the Year
"What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all."
~ John Holt
"We're not trying to do "School at Home". We're trying to do homeschool. These are two entirely different propositions. We're not trying to replicate the time, style, or content of the classroom. Rather we're trying to cultivate a lifestyle of learning in which learning takes place from morning until bedtime 7 days a week. The "formal" portion of each teaching day is just the tip of the iceburg."
~ Steve and Jane Lambert, authors of Five in a Row
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