“From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly.”
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.”
- Plato
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
- Thoreau
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
- Mark Twain
“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.”
- Charlotte M. Mason
“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”
-Beatrix Potter
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
- C.S. Lewis
“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
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
- Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
“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 Gathercold, The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling