“An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life. ”
~ Author Unknown
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ”
~ Albert Einstein
“The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins
“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
~ George Santayana
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
~ Aristotle
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
~ Mark Twain
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
~ Roger Lewin
“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
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
~ William Ellery Channing
“The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.”
~ Ben Jonson
“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
We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
~ Clay P. Bedford
“You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.”
~ Paul E. Gray
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.”
~ Jean Piaget
“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a room full of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mother’s care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children. ”
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
“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 each week. The “formal” portion of each teaching day is just the tip of the iceburg.”
~ Steve and Jane Lambert ( Five In A Row )
“I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.”
~ St. Augustine
“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Teaching does not make learning — organized education operates on the assumption that children learn only when and only what and only because we teach them. This is not true. It is very close to 100% false. Learners make learning.”
~ Education Reformer John Holt
I don’t want my children fed or clothed by the state, but I would prefer that to their being educated by the state.
~ Max Victor Belz
“To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.”
~ Wendy Priesnitz
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.”
~Melinda Harmon, Federal Judge, 1996
“Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds.”
~ Albert Einstein
“The idea is to educate, not follow anyone’s schedule about when something should be studied.”
~Ray Drouillard
“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
Resources:
Best Educational Homeschool Quotes, Homeschool with Aabc_Homeschooling
Education and Homeschool Quotes, Homeschooling Your Child
Homeschooling Quotes & Words on Education, Squidoo
Thoughts and Quotes, Home Sweet Homeschool
