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Quotes

This page is filled with quotes on the topic of homeschooling. If what I've said in the
previous sections didn't stand out to you, I'm quite certain these quotes have the
potential to.

These quotes are from the book So You're Thinking About Homeschooling by Lisa
Whelchel

“We were having so much fun you couldn’t have paid me to send my kids to school.”

“I remembered thinking on Hunter’s first day of kindergarten thinking, ‘Why am I sending
him off now just when he’s getting really fun to being around?’ As he got older I thought,
‘ And why does the school get the best part of his day, and I get the dregs when he’s
tired and cranky and I have to force him to do hours of homework? They have him for
seven hours- why can’t they get all the work done in that amount of time?”

“Time to get to know your kids is a luxury of inestimable value.”

“I came home to spend more time with my children and ended up becoming best
friends with my husband. Who would have guessed that homeschooling could be good
for your marriage?”

“Homeschooling is as much about home as it is about schooling.”

“Homeschool children whose mothers had a little more of smattering of education
beyond high school scored nearly as high as kids whose mothers had a college
degree and teaching credentials! Not bad, huh?”

“The average homeschooled child scored 87 percent on standardized tests, compared
to the average public school student who scored 50 percent.”

“I knew that I had done my absolute best to teach my girls how to be kind and respectful,
but it is hard to compete with the world’s influence when your child is away from you
eight hours a day.”

“We may have begun to homeschool because of peer pressure, substandard
education, and the bad attitudes our girls were picking up in school. But what will keep
us homeschooling are things like seeing the girls rediscover the joy of learning, the
rebuilding of family relationships, and having the privilege of once again being the
primary influence in our children’s lives.”

“I believe that I’m the best teacher for my children… because there is nobody in this
world who cares more about our children’s future than (my wife) and me.”

“I’m not interested in seeing my children either convert or adapt to what passes for the
needs of society these days.”

“I’m not ashamed to admit that my educational goals for (my children) do not include
making sure (they) fit into society.”

“I just wanted to pass the test and get on to the next book so that eventually I could get
on with real life. I was just marking time in school, waiting for life to begin. I don’t want
that for my kids. I want them to be thrilled about life now and to be prepared for what lies
ahead.”

“If you want something done right, then do it yourself.”

“There is no way a teacher can adjust her teaching style twenty-five times a day to meet
the needs of everyone in her class… I can give my children the individualized time,
teaching, and learning tools they need.”

“There is a bond between homeschoolers that transcends geographically defined
neighborhoods to form an instant community.”

“We found there’s lots to be learned from just living!”

“It is enough for me to know that my children are growing into sensitive, self confident,
independent young people- and I have homeschooling to thank for that.”

“Before we had children of our own, I worked as a preschool teacher. I saw the same
kids from seven o’clock in the morning until six o’clock at night, and I had wondered why
their parents even bothered having children at all.”

“I wasn’t willing to give some stranger twice as much time as I got in the day to shape
and mold my child.”

“I love learning now! And my children do too.”

“Many of the finest schools are now recruiting homeschoolers. Why? Because they tend
to be self-motivated and more involved in community service and extracurricular
activities, and they consistently score higher on standardized achievement tests than
their public school counterparts.”

“These kinds of lessons in sacrifice, compassion, service, and integrity cannot be
taught in the classroom situation.”

“What does it profit a mom if she gains the whole world and loses her children, their
hunger for knowledge, their compassion, and their appreciation for things that are of
real value (as opposed to what the typical American child considers important).
Sometimes less really is more.”

“What I soon discovered, however, was that home provided him freedom within a
structure. His classroom was just the opposite, offering confinement within chaos.”

“Conventional schools can be failure traps for children who, by nature, are not quiet,
compliant morning people able to concentrate for long periods of time.”

“There will be some who will look back on their traditional education and think, ‘Ninety
percent of what I’m using in my life and career is stuff that I learned on my own, either
outside of school or after I graduated.”

“I had read a book encouraging parents not to push their kids to grasp concepts before
they were ready. I like this philosophy. Why do schools teach and reteach the same
things over and over again every year throughout the elementary grades? Doesn’t it
make more sense to wait until the child is ready and then teach it to him once?”

“Children who love to read are usually very easy to unschool because their own passion
for learning is often enough to motivate them. Most learning can be accomplished by
reading good books.”

“If we are supposed to making a difference in the world, what better way to do it than by
training our children to become beacons to the world?”

“We don’t think God was crazy when He said children are a reward.”

“Many parents who choose to do so because they want to be the primary influence in
their kids’ lives.”

“Indeed, our responsibility, I like to think of it as our privilege, to train our children and
shape their character is the main reason we homeschool.”

“You can’t schedule a ‘teachable moment’ and the less time you spend with your
children, the fewer opportunities you have to seize these moments when they present
themselves.”

“I don’t want to leave it up to someone else to make sure my children develop good
character traits in addition to good study habits.”

“Do I really want (my kids) learning evolution as fact, politically correct agendas, written
history, tolerance as a subject, and how to put on a condom?”

These quotes were taken from the book The Homeschooling Option: How to Decide
When It's Right For Your Family by Lisa Rivero.

“Homeschooling gives children the opportunity to soar in their areas of strength and
take their time with more challenging subjects.”

“Once we understand that children learn state history in fourth grade because to do it
then is convenient for the schools, not necessarily for the children, we can make a
decision for our own child based on the child’s needs and interests, not on someone
else’s timetable of what every fourth grader should know.”

“When families entrust children to schools, they are giving up control over not only six or
more hours of the child’s day, but what subjects the child will study, how those subjects
will be taught, how well the child’s approach to learning will be understood and
accommodated, and whether or how much the child will be tested. For many families,
especially if they see their children struggling or not thriving in school, this loss of
control feels like an abdication of parental responsibility. They feel a duty to provide
children with the education they deserve."

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