Homeschooling Thoughts

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. . . . No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
- Socrates





If you think in seasons, plant cereals. If you think in decades, plant trees. If you think in centuries, educate your children.
-Chinese Proverb







What is essential is to realise that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it
- Holt