Education… has produced a
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan
Homeschooling
Real education must ultimately
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound
Education is helping the
Education is helping the child realise his potentialities. Erich Fromm
I was anticipating that
I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling. Emma Donoghue
Education is a better
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett
Spoon feeding in the
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster
The home is the
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 … Read more
We should recognize that
We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy. David Guterson
The status quo was
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs. David Guterson
Let the parent ask
Let the parent ask Why? and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him – and he will remember it – the reason why. Charlotte Mason