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 has learned how to learn and change.”― Carl Rogers
- “We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.” ― John Holt
- “Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.”― Tamara L. Chilver
- “For a child, there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does ‘just for fun’ and things that are ‘educational.’ The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable also plays.” ― Penelope Leach
- “Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They are constantly reminded they are “preparing for real life,” while being isolated from it.” ― Sandra Dodd
- “To make the most of this homeschooling life, we need to create the conditions for our children to thrive. Indoor and outdoor environments rich with imaginative play, natural objects, interesting people, good books, art supplies, and organic experiences, to name a few. And above all, a parent committed to letting them explore, learn and grow at their own pace.” ― AinsleyArment
- “Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages.”
― Rachel Gathercole - “You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.”-Marilyn How shall
- “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ― Ben Franklin
- “I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.” ― Petronius
- “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child’s natural bent.” ― Plato
- “An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.” ― Charlotte Mason
- “When children are surrounded by curious and creative adults, they have their own inner genius sparked into action” ―Thomas Armstrong
- “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
- “And all the time we have books, books teeming with ideas fresh from the minds of thinkers upon every subject to which we can wish to introduce children.” ―Charlotte Mason
- “Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.”―Quinn Cummings
- “So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they’re forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more every day waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?”―Steven James
- “My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.” ―George Bernard Shaw
- “People always understood, sensibly enough, that before you could teach something you had to know it yourself. But only very recently did human beings get the extraordinary notion that in order to be able to teach what you knew you had to spend years being taught how to teach…”―John Holt
- “The child should live in an environment of beauty.” ―Maria Montessori
- “All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”―Walter Scott
- “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”―Mark Twain
- “If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”―HaimGinott
- “You must pray…without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.”―John Hardon
- “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson” ―PrabeenaKalyan
- “Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write, and count. Childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child.” ―Magda Gerber
- “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
―John Lubbock - “Children may be more capable of competent self-directed learning than we give them credit for”―John Holt
- “…we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.”―Ivan Illich
- “We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.” ―Freeman Dyson**
- “I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must teach to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less slowly. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in flower pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences. ”―Anne Sullivan
- “What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth?”―Theodore Roszak
- “I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.”―Sigrid Undset
- “The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.” ―John Holt
- “As with everything else about children’s behavior, there’s nothing like a good role model. If you value play, your child will, too.” ―Madeline Levine
- “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”―Alejandro Jodorowsky
- “Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.”― Charlotte Mason
- “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”~―Fred Rogers
- “Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.” ―Thomas Berry
- “When public schools are judged by how much art and music they have, by how many sciences experiments their students perform, by how much time they leave for recess and play, and by how much food they grow, rather than by tests they administer, then I will be confident that we are preparing our students for a future where they will be creative participants and makers of history rather than obedient drones for the ruling economic elite.”―Mark Naison
- “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” ―Albert Einstein
- “It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.” ― Maria Montessori
- “A word to the wise, or even the unwise, is infuriating because it is insulting. When we teach without being asked, we are saying, in effect, ‘You’re not smart enough to know that you should know this, and not smart enough to learn it.”―Holt
- “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
- “love the morning school rush. Watching people get stressed out, flustered and sit in peak hour traffic is great for my mindfulness.” ― Eric Koelma
- “An orchestra requires men with different talents and, within limits, different tastes; if all men insisted upon playing the trombone, orchestral music would be impossible. Social co-operation, in like manner, requires differences of taste and aptitude, which are less likely to exist if all children are exposed to the same influences than if parental differences are allowed to affect them”―Bertrand Russell
- “One of the most damaging mindsets that children (and adults) develop around math is a false notion that they are “not math people.”―Rachel Kovac
- “Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.”―Anne Sullivan
- “What matters is not what we teach; it’s what they learn, and the probability of real learning is far higher when the students have a lot to say about both content and the process.” ―Alfie Kohn
- “Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”―G. M. Trevelyan
- “Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.”―Jonathan Kozol
- “Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.”―Maria Montessori
- “To a very great degree, a school is a place where children learn to be stupid.”―John Holt
- “Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.” ―Charlotte Mason
- “It’s not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It’s a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.”―John Holt
- “Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.”―Maria Montessori
- “We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.”― John Holt
- “Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it is all impossible, and they know it, and yet they believe.” ―Charlotte Mason***
- “The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.”― John Holt
- “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ―Rabindranath Tagore
- “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”―John Holt
- “The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say the children are now working as if I did not exist.” ―Maria Montessori
- “Fear, boredom, and resistance–they all go to make what we call stupid children.”― John Holt
- The best homeschool quote of all is, “H.O.M.E.W.O.R.K = Half of My Education Wasted on Random Knowledge.” ―Anon.