....just for fun
"Tests only test how well you can take the test." ~ John Berg
"I would rather have my child exposed to smallpox, typhus fever, cholera or other malignant and deadly diseases than to the degrading influence of a corrupt teacher." ~ Karl G. Maeser
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ~ Mark Twain
"Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons." ~ C. S. Lewis
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore, do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child." ~ Plato
“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
“Home schooling is a very old way of doing things. If you look at any of the bills in your wallet or the coins in your pocket, they all have a picture of a homeschooler on them.” ~ William Lloyd
“Don’t teach all of our children exactly the same things. If you teach them everything, all the same things, they won’t need one another and the world will split apart.” ~ Bruce (subiyay) Miller
"You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure from being engaged in." ~ Howard Gardner
"I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." ~ Anna Quindlen
“One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Parents give up their rights when they drop their children off at public school." ~ Melinda Harmon, Federal Judge, 1996
"What we want to see is the child in persute of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"When they learn in their own way and for their own reasons, children learn so much more rapidly and effectively than we could possibly teach them, that we can afford to throw away our curricula and our timetables, and seet them free, at least most of the time, to learn on their own." ~ John Caldwell Holt.
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." ~ Albert Einstein
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.” – Richard Bach
“Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.” – John Dewey
“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.” ~ Lillian Smith
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.” ~ Sir Walter Scott
"Education includes our whole heart, and our whole mind—everything we have and all we are. We should never stop improving who we are, our hearts and our minds. With all that hangs in the balance, no [one] can settle for anything but the very best education." ~ Rachel DeMille
"I would like to say to this congregation, and to the world, that if I possessed millions of dollars I would not be satisfied or content in my mind unless my boys knew how to do something that would bring them in a living, how to handle a pitchfork, or to run a mowing machine or reaper, or how to plow the ground and sow the seed; nor would I be satisfied if my daughters did not know how to keep a house. I would be ashamed of my children if they did know something of these things. We need manual training in schools instead of so much booklearning and the stuffing of fairy tales and fables which are contained in many of our school books of today. If we would devote more money and time, more energy and attention to teaching our children manual labor in our schools than we do, it would be a better thing for the rising generation." ~ Joseph F. Smith
