Homeschooling Thoughts

Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
- Albert Einstein





A homeschooling parent in Canada recently sent me a letter which ended with a quote by Roque Dalton: "May we keep hauling up the morning." I like the metaphor of a sailing ship upon the sea for parenthood and for homeschooling. There are no completely reliable charts, and so we must often navigate without them. We must learn for ourselves how to find the currents, avoid the reefs and storms, and enter the harbors. As we haul up the sails to go on sailing, so we haul up the morning for the adventures of each successive day. There is room for everybody on this ocean, and there is no pilot's license required or worth having. We must trust ourselves and our children. May each of us keep hauling up the morning.
-Earl Gary Stevens, Home Education Magazine, 1990







I hate quotations.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson