He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.”

~George Simmel, German Philosopher~

     “I think this wise; the greatest service we can do to education is to teach fewer subjects.  No one has time to do more  than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life”

~C S Lewis~

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goes out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”

~Cicero~

   "Educated’ means to be well brought up. First and foremost in importance is the power to live the life God has given in the way God intended. In order to have this power, a person must be at his best in his heart, mind, and soul. He must know how to choose good and refuse evil. 

     We, as persons, are not enlightened by means of multiple-choice test or grades, but rather by the other people in our lives that we come to know, admire, and love.  We are educated by our friendships and by our intimacies.  For instance, think how the actions of someone you admire influences your behavior.

     Similarly, think also of how a child’s interest is sparked by a hobby he loves, and to which he devotes all his time and trouble. Whether it be gardening, keeping house, or governing a state, love of work—like love of people—teaches things that no school, no system, can.

     Children are inspired by relationships, and this helps form their personalities."

~Karen Andreola~

  “The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.”

~Queen Victoria~

     “Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their teacher. The less the parents ‘talk-in’ and expound their rations of knowledge and thought to the children they are educating, the better for the children…Children must be allowed to ruminate, must be left alone with their own thoughts.”

~Charlotte Mason~

“Look on education as something between the child’s soul and God.  Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child’s brain and the standardized test.”

~Headmaster Gibbon/ Charlotte Mason~

     “Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without.  No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student.  Our business is to give him mind stuff.  Both quantity and quality are essential.”

                                                                       ~Charlotte Mason~

“He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.”

~Aristotle~

“The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled ‘If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here’.”

~John Ortberg in The Life You’ve Always Wanted ~

“When I was a newly-wed and didn't know how to cook, I asked my grandmother for her chili recipe.
"Well, first you cook your beans."
What kind of beans?
"Any kind you want."
How many?
"As many as you need."
Okay, then what?
"You brown your meat."
How much meat?
"Depends on how many beans you cooked."
Okay, supposing I make it that far, then what?
"Well, you just season it till it tastes right, and that's all there is to it!"  :-)

I think homeschooling is much like that -- different grades, different children, and different life circumstances keep us from having one constant "recipe." We often play it by ear, "taste" it and adjust accordingly.

~ Jenny Calvin, a wise homeschooling Mom ~

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something! Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”

~Steve Irwin~

“The Crocodile Hunter”

 
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