A collection of homeschool quotes for encouragement and good things to think about and implement. Also see these Charlotte Mason Quotes for more mind food.

“Boredom shouldn't be a problem for God's children--our Heavenly Father is so creative and delights in blessing us with ideas and opportunities to learn and grow in Him every single day of our lives--in sunshine and in rain, and warm weather and in cold!” Tamara Eaton.

“The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.” Unknown

“But, if we would do our best for our children, grow we must; and on our power of growth surely depends, not only our future happiness, but our future usefulness.” Charlotte Mason Parents Review Volume III, no. 2 1892-93 of The Parents' Review, pp 92-95

“It would be better for boys and girls to suffer the consequences of not doing their work, now and then, than to do it because they are urged and prodded on all hands…” Charlotte Mason

“Let me also urge parents to see that in a child's leisure hours change of work is encouraged. How often one sees a child straight from the schoolroom huddled up in an arm-chair reading a book. The brain is still working in very much the same direction as it has been during school hours. Games, needlework, wood-carving, etc - many other interests might be substituted which would rest the brain, and help to develop the child in an "all round" way.” AH, Parents Review

“Homeschool is the best place to raise children to magnanimous. We can hold up to Jesus Christ as the perfect example of magnanimity for our children. We can endeavor to be like Him.” Karen Andreola, Charlotte Mason Companion

"...the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose." Charlotte Mason, Original Homeschooling Series

“The family is the unit of a nation.” – F D Maurice, taken from Charlotte Mason’s Parent’s and Children.

“ The teacher [parent] who allows his [her] scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friends; and is no longer the instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.” Charlotte Mason, Philosophy of Education.

Susanna Wesley said on her mothering beliefs: "No-one can, without renouncing the world in the most literal sense observe my method and there are few , if any, that would entirely devote above 20 years of the prime of their life in hopes to save the souls of their children." I am sure you know she had 19 children, 11 of whom lived to adulthood and some of them were those who changed the course of history.

“…our non success in education is a good deal due to the fact that we carry children through their school work and do not let them stand on their own two feet.”

“Our whole system of school policy is largely a system of prods. Marks, prizes, exhibitions, are all prods; and a system of prodding is apt to obscure the meaning of must and ought for the boy or girl who gets into the habit of mental and moral lolling up against his prods.”

“It would be better for boys and girls to suffer the consequences of not doing their work, now and then, than to do it because they are urged and prodded on all hands…”

“...we should train children so that we should be able to honour them with a generous confidence; and if we give them such confidence we shall find that they justify it.”

President Theodore Rooseveldt at the 1970 annual address to congress stated:
” When home ties are loosened, when men and woman cease to regard a worthy family life, with all its duties and all its responsibilities lived up, as the best life worth living, then evil days for the nation are at hand.”

“…we are to groom our children according to their natural bents. This means coming alongside them with a plan to help leverage their natural and unique gifts and skills into highly developed assets that they can lean on in the future.” Tim Kimmel, Grace Based Parenting

: “We believe, as Charlotte Mason, did that the Holy Spirit is the only true educator and we are merely facilitators of what He is teaching.”Bill St Cyr

” A child’s mind…is rather a spiritual organism with an appetite for all knowledge. This is its proper diet, with which it is prepared to deal, and which it can digest and assimilate as the body does foodstuffs.” Charlotte Mason

“Love that chooses to love is just as powerful as love that feels like loving.” The Love Dare.

“In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mothers first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.” Charlotte Mason

"We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things." Charlotte Mason

“It’s human nature to be self-occupied…When we continually think only of ourselves, it’s stamped on our face and heart, the way a coin is minted. It’s the print of God I see on the face of the child who is learning to care for others.” Ms. Leistner, visitor to A PNEU school.

“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 the memory with thoughts of other men.” ~Bill Beattie

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” ~George Santayana

“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.” ~William Haley

“But for every day, being in a mixed group with different ages, like we get in family life, makes for the most rest and room for individual development. We have all seen children who are more sensible, reasonable, fun and resourceful at home than they are at school.” Charlotte Mason, Home Education pg 191

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