To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but something we want to create, something we want to understand. Not an empty exercise...

Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher...

Never has God given waivers to family members, just because they had bad leaders. In Jonah’s time, the entire family of Israel had become unacceptable, but never has any Israelite administration been without some injustice,...

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn’t, don’t import it.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas...

We should expect nothing less from the language that was originally given by God, to His human family. Hebrew was the method that God chose for mankind to speak to Him, and Him to them....

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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.

What method would produce the same interpretation?” If you will pull out your Strong’s Concordance and translate those same four words, you won’t get the same results that Daniel got. Was Daniel using a different...

Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They have worthwhile ideas. They make perceptive connections. They’re individuals from the start: a unique bundle of interests, talents, and preferences....

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child’s nature.

And God does have a personality. He can’t hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person–not a fleshly person, but a person...

Go, do whatever you like.” To help children become skilled thinkers and learners, to help them become people who make and do, we need a life centered around those experiences. We need to show them...

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction...

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong,...

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to...

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty–even when...

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the...

We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand...

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

[Homeschooling]…recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Jonah can’t see how Assyria could serve any useful purpose. How could this commission better Israel? Jonah might even fear that God will reverse His judgment against Nineveh. If that ‘unchanging God’ changes His mind...

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

Homeschool doesn’t give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It justgives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone’s lame Facebook joke.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone,...

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

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

The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)

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...

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...

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

It has always been difficult for Jews to take Christians serious, mostly because Christians lack the fundamentals that religious Jews learn in their youth. It remains an embarrassing fact, that modern Jews can comprehend the...

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

Saul took the sword and fell upon it.” –1Sam 31:4pg 75

It is hard not to feel that there must be something very wrong with much of what we do in school, if we feel the need to worry so much about what many people call...

Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but lived, learned, worked, and played in the real world, alongside adults...

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.

Just as ceremonial fasting was a legitimate means for getting God’s attention (Mt 6:16-18; Ac 13:2-3; 14:23), the casting of lots was a legitimate means for inviting God to intercede on a matter. (Pr 18:18)...

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

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...