Why Homeschool?

“The school system in this country—public and private—is designed for the industrial age. We’re in a technological age. We don’t want our kids to memorize. We want them to learn.”
...............Jada Pinkett Smith

10 Favorite Quotes...on trust

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
...............Thomas Fuller


Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
...............Solon


Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
...............D. H. Lawrence


You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently.
...............Patricia Hewitt


For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe.
...............H. L. Mencken


It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
...............Anonymous


Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
...............Johann Kaspar Lavater


I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
...............Charles Dickens


Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
...............Maggie Gyllenhaal


Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
...............Eric Hoffer

10 Favorite Quotes...on being true to yourself

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
...............Janis Joplin


I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
...............Ingrid Bergman


I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
...............Madonna


I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
...............Dolly Parton


Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
...............Lucille Ball


I was thought to be "stuck-up". I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
...............Bette Davis


Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
...............Billie Jean King


What a lovely surprise to discover how unlonely being alone can be.
...............Ellen Burstyn


It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
...............Sally Field


It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.
...............Paula Cole

10 Favorite Quotes...on friendship

Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
...............Anonymous


A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
...............Ralph Waldo Emerson


Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
...............George Eliot


My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
...............Henry Ford


No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
...............Alice Walker


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
...............Ralph Waldo Emerson


Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
...............Mother Teresa


An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
...............Buddha


True friends stab you in the front.
...............Oscar Wilde


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
...............William Blake

10 Favorite Quotes...on learning

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!". Then get busy and find out how to do it.
...............Theodore Roosevelt


I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
...............Pablo Picasso


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
...............Chinese Proverb


If you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
...............Henry Ford


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
...............Louisa May Alcott


I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
...............Confucius


Imagination is more important than knowledge.
...............Albert Einstein


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
...............Socrates


Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
...............Oscar Wilde


If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
...............John Holt

10 Favorite Quotes...on religion

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
...............George Washington


Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
...............Thomas Jefferson


The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
...............Benjamin Franklin


A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
...............Albert Einstein


So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would neither be created nor destroyed it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?
...............Stephen Hawking


Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
...............Sigmund Freud


I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
...............Mahatma Gandhi


The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
...............Karl Marx


Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
...............Napoleon Bonaparte


God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?
...............Unknown

10 Favorite Quotes...on school

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
...............Albert Einstein


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


I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
...............Anne Sullivan


I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
...............Agatha Christie


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


Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
...............Victor Hugo


All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
...............Sir Walter Scott


Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mundane educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom, go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.
...............Frank Zappa


I know my enemies, they're the teachers who taught me to fight me.
...............Rage Against the Machine


It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
...............Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany