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Whether you are a seasoned homeschool mom/dad or still considering the option, there are days of inevitable doubts and uncertainty. We’ve embarked on this journey driven by the desire to provide our children with the best education for them, yet there are times when we wonder if we’re truly capable.
So, when those moments of doubt and fear hang over us, let’s draw strength from the wisdom of those who have trodden the path before us.
Read more: Homeschooling in the Early Years: What to Focus On.
In this blog post, I’ve curated 30 inspiring quotes about homeschooling and learning to uplift, motivate, and remind you of the extraordinary power and beauty of this journey.
If you’re searching for inspiration, also make sure to check my blog post of homeschool room ideas, designs, and tips!
30 Inspirational Homeschool Quotes
1. “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 schools, but that it isn’t a school at all.” – John Holt
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2. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead
3. “We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. “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
5. “Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.” – John Holt
6. “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
7. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.” – James Beattie
8. “Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.” Charlotte Mason
9. “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
10. “The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands-on, exploring, in active relationship with life.” – Vince Gowman
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11. “The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.” – Harold B. Lee
12. “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
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13. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt
14. “Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.” – Charlotte Mason
15. “When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” – Elizabeth Foss
16. “The best classroom is a multisensory environment, where kids are constantly moving and doing things.” – John Taylor Gatto
17. “Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.” – Maria Montessori
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18. “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
19. “A lifestyle of learning begins at home – with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement.” – Julie Bogart
20. “Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” – John Holt
21. “…my object is to show that the chief function of the child – his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life – is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses… – Charlotte Mason
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22. “One cannot help but wonder how many excellent minds have been inhibited, perhaps thwarted altogether by the one-size-fits-all system.” – Jackie Ors
23. “When we focus on instilling a love of learning over a list of requirements, we can almost guarantee that our children’s education won’t end when they leave our homes.” – Ainsley Arment
24. “Let kids decide what they want to learn and you’ll find nearly every subject you could ever want to teach about can fall within the bounds of the project.” – Richie Norton
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25. “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
26. “Homeschooling is about growing and learning, not about being perfect.” – Kathy Oaks
27. “The education of a child is a work of love.” – Maria Montessori
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28. “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.” – Charlotte Mason
29. “Our discussion has been about education and not about schools, for schooling is only a means, and not always an absolute necessary one, toward education. Parents had the duty of educating their children long before there were any schools, and the duty would remain were all schools abolished. Even today, if the parents have the ability and the leisure to give adequate instruction to their children at home, they have no moral obligation to send them to school at all.” – Austin Fagothey
30. “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
I hope you enjoyed these quotes about homeschooling and learning! Make sure to save them to your Pinterest board to check them later!
