Homeschooling Thoughts

Trying to get more learning out of the present system is like trying to get the Pony express to compete with the telegraph by breeding faster ponies.
- Edward Fiske





Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
- E. M. Forster






One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.
-John Taylor Gatto, foreword, "The Art of Education"