Quotes on Sunday

To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.  – Mary Pettibone Poole

Quotes on Monday

 “When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
                                          –Bertrand Russell

Quotes on Monday

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.
                                                  – George Simmel, German Philosopher

Quotes on Friday

What effect does homeschooling have on the kids themselves? Are they less social or more social? Do they become misfits in society? Barb Lundgren, who homeschooled her three children in the “Unschooling” manner advocated by educational philosopher John Holt, states,“I have found that homeschooled kids are quite different from ‘normal’ kids. All ages and abilities [...]

Quotes on Friday

Leo Damrosch, a Harvard English professor began home schooling his sons, 10 and 13, in part because“the two writers I’ve studied most intensively for many years, William Blake and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, were both geniuses of astounding originality, and neither of them went to school for a single day.”
(“Home Sweet School,” John Cloud and Jodie [...]

Quotes on Friday

In 1992 psychotherapist Larry Shyers did a study while at the University of Florida in which he closely examined the behavior of 35 home schoolers and 35 public schoolers. He found that home schoolers were generally more patient and less competitive. They tended to introduce themselves to one another more; they didn’t fight as much. [...]

Quotes on Friday

Home schoolers bring certain skills-motivation, curiosity, the capacity to be responsible for their education-that high schools don’t induce very well,” a Stanford University admissions officer told The Wall Street Journal (“An A for Home Schooling,” Brian C. Anderson, City Journal, Summer 2000)

Quotes on Friday

Homeschooling Makes Smart Kids!
In a 1998 study by Dr. Lawrence Rudner of the University of Maryland, over 20,000 home-schooled students took standardized tests and completed other questionnaires.The study concluded that “in every subject and at every grade level of the [tests], home-schooled students scored significantly higher than their public and private school counterparts.” Furthermore, the [...]

Quotes on Friday

A good quote about the “S” word. For more on Socialization, see my post here.
The trump card the educational establishment used to play against homeschooling is socialization, but the notion that homeschoolers are misfits has been struck a death blow by a young man named Larry Shyers.  Dr. Shyers recently completed a doctoral dissertation in [...]

Quotes on Friday

According to The Wall Street Journal, “Evidence is mounting that home-schooling, once confined to the political and religious fringe, has achieved results not only on par with public education, but in some ways surpassing it”
(“School’s Out” by Daniel H. Pink, Reason magazine, 2001).