Quotes About Homeschooling

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren't isolated, and I've always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals.

My education was seeing and touching the world. I would read about the history of a castle with my mother - who was a teacher, so she home-schooled me - and then she would take me to the castle, and we would climb on it, and then I'd write creatively about it that night.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.

If anyone asked, they were home schooling Jack, which had the added benefit of being the truth, even if lessons tended toward it's a bus, you can't fight it rather than algebra.

If one wanted to assess whether a generation of homeschoolers raised on Christian Reconstruction have any influence, the Georgia State Republican Party might be a good place to start.

CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING IS infused with the values of Christian Reconstruction and is seen by those in the movement as the single most important tool for the exercise of dominion.

Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

My brother was really smart, and I definitely had a little ADD - I was very creative and active - and my mom thought, 'Why should I send them to school when they can work at a higher level at home?'

Can't you home school me? Nate pleaded. You would never do any work. (Nate's mom) Sounds perfect!

I am really committed to my faith journey, and I am committed to my family. My husband and I have been married for almost 30 years, and we homeschool our kids. We have a different working-out-of the-box family, but we do make it work, obviously with God's grace, and we are very grateful for that.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.

Homeschooling is great because it's extremely lenient, and so if there's a day I come home from practice and mentally, I'm just exhausted, I can actually just save the test for the next day if I really have to.

Susan Wise Bauer

Part of the school dilemma results from an over-focus on testing results; home educators are free from that pressure, so you won't have to decide between test prep and expository writing.

My mom and dad decided to homeschool us - I'm one of eight - because they really wanted us to be outside and learn some other fundamentals instead of it being school all day in a classroom.