Homeschooling is hard, ya’ll. We homeschooling moms are notorious for feeling like we’re failing our children in one way or another. You know what, Mama? There is no better teacher your children can have than a teacher who loves them more than anyone else in this world.
Homeschooling moms need every bit of inspiration and encouragement we can get. To give you some daily inspiration, here is a list of 31 inspirational quotes homeschooling moms love.
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31 Inspirational Quotes Homeschooling Moms Love
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”~ Aristotle
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” ~Gandhi
“Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.” ~ Charlotte M. Mason
“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”
~John Ruskin
“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”
~John Taylor Gatto
“When one teaches, two learn.”
~Robert Heinlein
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
~ William Butler Yeats
“Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.”
~ Charlotte Mason
“It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society, but to make society.” ~John Holt
“Homeschooled children benefit the community because they are not shaped by peers but by parents.”
~ Mary Kay Clark
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn”~Benjamin Franklin
“From the day you became a parent, you also became a teacher, and you are equipped to teach your child”
~Anne Campbell
“Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word it would be freedom”
~Tamara L. Chilver
“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.”
~ Elizabeth Foss
“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write, and count. Childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child.”
~Anonymous
“When your child is close enough to you, he can be exposed to your adult life, and this is how he eventually learns to be an adult.”
~Ann Ortlund
“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
~Walter Scott
“We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.”
~Dr. Voddie Baucham
“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 Moore
“You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.”~Margaret Howshall
“All this impressing, talking, sitting, walking, and getting up together takes the investment of time. The day in and day out living the life of faith.”
~Jamerrill Stewart
“Never be within doors when you can rightly be without.”
~Charlotte Mason
“Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning spaces.”
~John Holt
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
~John Dewey
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”~Nelson Mandela
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”~Pablo Picasso
“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.”
~Jean Piaget
“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
~Albert Einstein
“The best education I have ever received was through travel.”
~Lisa Ling
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Rebecca Toon is a follower of Christ, wife to a cowboy, and homeschooling mom of 4. She loves to encourage women to be the godly woman they were created to be. She writes about homeschooling and the challenges of motherhood over at Homeschool on the Ranch.
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