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By educating me at home, my parents were able to give me individualized attention without the usual distractions that kids in regular school experience, like dating and friendship. Not to mention that traditional school can be dangerous. I’ve heard about kids catching the flu and chicken pox, even Judaism. And how about those poor kids lugging all those heavy books to and from school every day? My books never went anywhere, just like me. I felt so bad when I’d see kids on my street giggling and chasing each other around with those awkward backpacks. ↗

— Colin Nissan

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The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. ↗

— David O. McKay

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Education is a system of imposed ignorance. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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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

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It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. ↗

— Ezra Taft Benson

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Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ↗

— Roger Lewin

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Without knowing it, I had stumbled upon one of the basic postulates of homeschooling: Anything you do with a home-schooled child outside the home can be described as a "field trip", thus rendering whatever activity you pursue a legitimate educational experience. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

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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

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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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