on homeschooling...

"Any place that anyone young can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution." -Al Capp

"The home is the chief school of human virtues. "-William Ellerly Channing

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does

it. " -Alexandre Dumas

"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully." -Tyron Edwards

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." -Richard Feynman

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." -Galileo Galilei

"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." -Paul E. Gray

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." -Emma Goldman

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it." -Madeleine L'Engle

"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

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."-Beatrix Potter

"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?" -Beah Richards

"What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook."-Henry David Thoreau

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -William Butler Yeats

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain