Homeschool Quotes

From the Clarkson's book, Educating the Whole Hearted Child:

Talking about current educational testings:

"The problem with all this measuring is that is has convinced us as a culture that we should compare our children to other children when it comes to learning. That is not only an unfair burden on your children, it is a poor measure of true education. The true test of a child's education is not what he or she knows at any on time relative to what other children know. It is whether or not the child is growing stronger in all of the most important skills."

From Susan Schaeffer Macaulay's book, For the Children's Sake:

"Our generation is prone to amuse itself with fragmentary information and resources. We flip on the TV for brief programs, and then we think we know about the subjects they dealt with. A few paragraphs in a magazine, and we think we've formed an opinion. What is happening so often is that we are merely forming a habit of amusing our interest, and then forgetting the fragments. This is not education."