Homeschooling is teaching kids at home usually by parents.
It’s great because parents can closely guide their kids’ learning and have a flexible schedule.
But it’s tough too – parents need to find time to teach kids might not always be dedicated and socializing can be a challenge.
If you need a boost check out some homeschool quotes. They’re inspiring and help remind you that the ups and downs are normal.
Homeschooling can feel like a smooth ride or a bumpy journey.
These quotes about homeschooling capture both the fun and the hard parts with humor and insight.
Let’s dive in.
Homeschool Quotes
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. ~ Albert Einstein.
Parents and families are the first and most important teachers. ~ Richard W. Riley.
School is not the only place to learn to grow up. ~ Patrick Farenga.
I homeschool my children not to prepare them for exams, but to prepare them for life. ~ Tamara L. Chilver
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. ~ Plutarch.
I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill.
Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road. ~ Tamara L. Chilver.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ~ Noam Chomsky.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. ~ St. Augustine.
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Encouraging Homeschool Quotes
A classroom doesn’t need to have four walls. ~ Anonymous.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ~ Nelson Mandela.
There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom. ~ Joao Coutinho
Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school. ~ John Holt.
The first real lesson I learned as a homeschool teacher is that … it’s the students that lead the way. ~ Patti Armstrong.
It’s not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It’s my God who made me qualified when I became a mom. ~ Tamara L.Chilver
The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home. ~ Harold B. Lee.
Educating a child is a natural process. Homeschooling is nothing more than an extension of parenting. ~ John Taylor Gatto.
Homeschooling might raise a few eyebrows and that’s okay. ~ Tristan Devitt.
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
Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. ~ Eric Fromm.
Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places. ~ John Holt.
Tough times never last but tough people do. ~ Robert H. Schuller.
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Motivational Homeschool Quotes
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
The time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Homeschooling allows you to make the curriculum fit the child, rather than making the child fit the curriculum ~ Homeschool with Love
If you can dream it, you can do it. ~ Walt Disney.
The home is the chief school of human virtues. ~ William Ellery Channing
There is only one path that leads to contentment: a life lived in close contact with reality as it is—a life in which we are responsible for our own happiness. This is not a matter of choice, but of necessity; the only alternative to it is permanent unhappiness. ~ John Holt
Homeschooling is not a race to the finish line. It’s a journey of a million small discoveries that lead you along the path God has marked out for you. ~ Jeannie Fulbright
Because the issue of homeschooling socialisation tends to be overblown, homeschooling parents are very alive to the potential pitfalls of failing to socialise their children. ~ Rebbecca Devitt.
Children still need a childhood with dirt, mud, puddles, trees, sticks, and tadpoles. ~ Brooke Hampton
Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. ~ Lori McWilliam Pickert.
No one is perfect ~ that’s why pencils have erasers. ~ Wolfgang Riebe.
It is a waste of time to force a child to learn anything. ~ John Taylor Gatto.
Top Homeschool Quotes
I always wanted to be a hero–to sacrifice my life in a big way one time–and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal. ~ Sally Clarkson
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire. ~ W.B. Yeats.
The purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ Morton W. Jones
Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein.
It’s such a joy to be home with my children, to have the opportunity to really know them and what they are learning, and to help facilitate their learning in ways that work best for each of them. ~ Wendy Woerner
When home education is seen in its proper place, seen as a gift, a blessing, an act of stewardship, and when it’s embraced in humility, it’s a lovely thing. ~ Dawn Gregg
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding. ~ Charlotte Mason
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~ Albert Einstein.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~ Rumi
When one teaches, two learn. ~ Robert Heinlein.
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature. ~ Charlotte Mason.
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading. ~ Charlotte M. Mason.
These principles derive not merely from the homeschooling movement but from contemporary research into how children learn. ~ David Guterson.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~ Isaac Asimov.
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education. ~ Marilyn Howshall.
We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. ~ Diane Flynn Keith.
Best Homeschool Quotes
I’ve never met a homeschooling mom who regretted her decision. But I’ve met plenty of school moms who have regretted sending their kids to school. ~ Rebecca Devitt.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin.
Once I realized we didn’t need to recreate the traditional classroom, and that we could customize our kids’ education, I discovered a new type of freedom. ~ Kent Larson
There’s nothing that stamps out the true love of learning more quickly than standardised testing and benchmarking. ~ Grace Koelma.
It’s always too soon to quit. ~ Norman Vincent Peale.
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin
I think it’s necessary to let kids get bored once in a while—that’s how they learn to be creative. ~ Kim Raver
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain.
Homeschooling is not about rejecting other people and things; it’s about making personal and positive choices for your own family. ~ Mariette Ulrich
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. ~ Wayne Gretzky.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~ Pablo Picasso.
Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. ~ Gene Royer.
If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word it would be freedom. ~ Tamara L. Chilver.
All the world is my school. ~ George Whitman.
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. ~ George Bernard Shaw.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. ~ Freeman Dyson
We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F Skinner
What do parents owe their young that is more important than a warm and trusting connection to the Earth? ~ Theodore Roszak.
If you’ve told a child a thousand times, and the child still has not learned, then it is not the child who is the slow learner. ~ Walter Barbie.
Recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons. ~ Raymond S. Moore.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Joseph Addison.
We have come to realise that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. ~ Ivan Illich.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey.
I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone. ~ Woody Allen.
Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all of the time. ~ Sandra Dodd.
Homeschool Quotes And Sayings
Meaningful learning happens when our children wrestle directly with great ideas- not as a result of our repackaging those great ideas, but when they interact with the ideas themselves. ~ Sarah Mackenzie
When children go from one class to the next, followed by extracurricular activities, sports, and then homework all evening, when do they get to experience the wonder of childhood? ~ Ainsley Arment
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. ~ Rachel Carson
Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day. ~ Sally Clarkson
When we are connected, when we feel heard, when we feel like we aren’t being force fed an education… that’s when real, passionate, fiery learning takes place. ~ Jessica Pilton
An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing. ~ Charlotte Mason.
From the day you became a parent, you also became a teacher, and you are equipped to be a teacher. ~ Anne Campbell
True education must develop from within outward… It cannot be imposed from without. ~ Maria Montessori
How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? ~ Henry Thoreau
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. ~ Aristotle
Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road. ~ Tamara L. Chilver
A teaching degree is to homeschooling as a culinary degree is to grandma’s cooking…it just can’t touch the love, care and personal standard that only she can stir in. ~ Dawn Shelton.
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. ~ Mark Twain.
Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults and other children of all ages. ~ Rachel Gathercole.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school: it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ~ Beatrix Potter
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. ~ John Holt.
Homeschool Quotes about Learning
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ~ Edward Everett
Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. ~ Malcolm Gladwell.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein.
It’s much more important to make sure your kids are happy and productive than that they be educated. ~ Frank Herbert
Homeschooling is a challenge, a commitment, and a lifestyle of love and devotion. ~ Janet Tatman
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. ~ Dalai Lama.
The home is the chief school of human virtues. ~ William Channing
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. ~ Walter Scott.
Nobody rises to low expectations. ~ Calvin Lloyd.
If I had my way, I would build a school on top of a mountain and make the teacher climb up to it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ~ Gandhi.
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Thank goodness my education was neglected. ~ Beatrix Potter.
When you consider homeschooling, you must recognize that the fruit you hope to realize will likely take longer and be harder to grow than your anticipate. In many cases you must merely live in faith for the future results. ~ Debra Bell
We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn’t interest us, can keep our minds from wandering? Hardly any. ~ John Holt
It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society, but to make society. ~ John Holt.
Children are born persons. ~ Charlotte Mason.
I never teach my pupils, I only provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~ Albert Einstein
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self ~ control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. ~ David O. McKay.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~ Robert Maynard Hutchins.
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. ~ Mr. Rogers
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. ~ E. M. Forster.
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ~ Kierkegaard.
Quotes about Homeschool
Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us. ~ Sandra Dodd
Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. ~ David O. McKay.
It’s not my credentials that qualify me to teach my child. It’s my God who made me qualified when he made me a Mom! ~ Tamara L. Chilver.
Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating. ~ Katrina Gutleben.
When children are surrounded by curious and creative adults, they have their own inner genius sparked into action. ~ Thomas Armstrong
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. ~ John Dewey.
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. ~ David O.McKay
What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the school, but that it isn’t a school at all. ~ John Holt.
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. ~ Ezra Taft Benson.
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. ~ Brian Herbert.
How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? ~ Henry D. Thoreau.
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ~ Ignacio Estrada.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. ~ Albert Einstein.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school: it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ~ Beatrix Potter.
Homeschooled children benefit the community because they are not shaped by peers but by parents. ~ Mary Kay Clark.
We cannot solve our problems using the same thinking we used when we created them. ~ Albert Einstein.
You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education. ~ Marilyn Howshall
In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. ~ Gene Royer.
Our rapidly moving, information-based society badly needs people who know how to find facts rather than memorize them, and who know how to cope with change in creative ways. You don’t learn those things in school. ~ Wendy Priesnitz
Formal education will make you a living; self ~ education will make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn
When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ~ Elizabeth Foss.
Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire. ~ W.B.Yeats
There is no education but self-education. ~ Charlotte M. Mason.
When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable. ~ Elizabeth Foss
I home educate not to prepare my children for tests, but to prepare my children for life. ~ Tamara L. Chilver
Childhood is not preparation for adulthood-it is a part of life. ~ A. Neill.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~ Peter Drucker.
Homeschooling is about helping make it possible for children to reach maturity with healthy, curious, fully conscious minds. ~ Earl Gary Stevens
The difference between school and life? In school you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. ~ Prabeena Kalyan
He requires much knowledge, for the mind needs sufficient food as much as does the body. ~ Charlotte Mason.
Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life. ~ Charlotte Mason
Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write, and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. ~ Gandhi.
Homeschooling is about growing and learning, not about being perfect. ~ Kathy Oaks
Education begins at home. You can’t blame the school for not putting into your child what you don’t put into him. ~ Geoffrey Holder.
Cute Homeschool Quotes
The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education––but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him? ~ Charlotte Mason
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Ben Franklin.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ~ Jim Rohn
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Mark Twain.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain.
The home is the chief school of human virtues. ~ William Ellery Channing.
If we weren’t so intent on forcing people to conform, there would be a lot more homeschooling going on. That’s my final answer. ~ John Holt
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~ Corrie Ten Boom.
Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take the walls away. ~ Erin Kenny.
In conclusion, homeschooling is a great concept and I hope these quotes will give you good insight into this.
