Motivation is compulsory to stay consistent in homeschooling. Here are some best homeschool quotes to motivate you.
Although homeschooling can be fun, it’s not an easy task to do. Obviously, it’s not easy to be a parent and teacher of a child at the same time. Sometimes, you’re not able to work according to the plan and get worried about your child’s future. This is the time when you need the inspiration to continue homeschooling. So, here we come with the 100 best homeschool quotes to encourage you in this tough time. No doubt, these quotes will keep you moving on this journey to homeschool your child. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s have some courage with these best home school quotes.
100 best homeschool quotes
- “With thirty-two kids in a room, it is impossible to cater to education toward each child. Children do have to wait because there are a lot of children to wait for.”―Nikki Schaefer
- “Our entire school system is based on the notion of passive students that must be “taught” if they are to learn… Our country spends tens of billions of dollars each year not just giving students a second-rate education, but at the same time actively preventing them from getting an education on their own. And I’m angry at how school produces submissive students with battered egos. Most students have no idea of the true joys of learning, and of how much they can actually achieve on their own.” ― Adam Robinson
- “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”― Jim Rohn
- “Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.”― John Holt
- “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 the thoughts of other men.” ―James Beattie
- “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” ― Sydney J. Harris
- “When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” ― Elizabeth Foss
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ―John Dewey
- “I homeschool my children not to prepare them for exams, but to prepare them for life.” ―Tamara L Chilver
- “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” ―Robert Fulghum
- “Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn.”― Gene Royer
- “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
- “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” ―Agatha Christie
- “The same ones who brought the children physically in the world have the natural obligation binding in the natural law to provide for the mental, moral and social upbringing of their offspring.” ―Fr. John Hardon
- “Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”― John Ruskin
- “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”― Gandhi
- “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.”― Ivan Illich
- “The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”― David O. McKay
- “The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who think they know best”― A.S. Neill
- “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”― Roger Lewin
- “Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.” ―Maria Montessori
- 22. “Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression, and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.”― Peter O. Gray
- “The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.” ―Harold B. Lee
- “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all” ―Aristotle
- “Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.”– W.B. Yeats
- “Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”
― John Taylor Gatto - “Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” ―Katrina Gutleben
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” ―Albert Einstein
- “It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.”― Ezra Taft Benson
- “The satisfaction which they find in their work has given them a grace and ease like that which comes from music.” ―Maria Montessori
- “The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make ‘good’ citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.” ―H.L. Menchken
- “The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.” ―David O. McKay
- “When you homeschool your children, you have to make sacrifices: of your time, of your energy, of your money. Speaking of money, you know, when I look back, living on one income all those years meant we didn’t drive expensive cars or go on extended high-end vacations. But that wasn’t important. What was important was that we had time together…nothing can replace that. You can have that time too. Concentrate on the positives, and enjoy your time with your kids. You won’t be sorry.” ―Barbara Frank
- “I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
― Agatha Christie, - “Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.”― Ezra Pound
- “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.” ― Noam Chomsky,
- “The only person who is educated is the one who h