Plato quotes

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Books are the immortal sons deifying their sires.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

For ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Homeschooling Quotes

I will add to this as I find quotes I like.

“Your home is a mini world designed for learning everything a person will truly need to know to go through life. It houses a private school, art gallery, library, communications center (computer, telephone, etc), restaurant for gourmet and fast food, laundromat, nursery, sports arena, hotel facilities (for guests), hospital (for teaching nursing skills), infirmary, church, transportation services, garage (auto mechanics), music conservatory, repair shop, and much more. Teach your children everything you yourself know.” – Maxine McLellan

“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, co-founder of The Princeton Review