There isn’t any known way to bulk-educate; it’s all custom work.
~ John Taylor Gatto
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.’

Nobody rises to low expectations ~Calvin Lloyd

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

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

A house is not a home unless it contains fire and food for the mind as well as the body. ~ Margaret Fuller

I don’t see homeschooling as some kind of answer to badness of schools. I think that the home is the proper base for the exploration of the world which we call learning or education. Home would be the best base no matter how good the schools were. The proper relationship of the schools to home is the relationship of the library to home, or the skating rink to home. It is a supplementary resource. ~ John Holt

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
~ Petronius

 

A farmer needed an extra hand to help on his farm. One young man came to interview for the job. “What are your qualifications?” the farmer asked. “I can sleep when the wind blows,” the young man said. This simple reply confused the farmer, but he was desperate for help and the young man was hired.

The young man was a diligent worker through the harvest season, but the farmer still questioned his answer.

Autumn ended and the first cold storm of winter came late one night. The farmer panicked as the winds began to blow. Calling the young man for help, the farmer grabbed his coat and pulled heavy boots on his feet. He was disappointed to find the young man asleep in bed at a time like this. Grudgingly he ventured out alone planning to shuffle all of the animals in the barn and then fix that last hole in the roof. He mumbled about the young man sleeping and was sure all the farm equipment was left standing in the field, collecting rust from the snow.

However, when the farmer reached the barn all the animals were tucked safely inside. In fact, clean hay had already been set out for the new day. Not a single hole could be found in the roof, and the tractor was parked perfectly in the shed.

“Who could have done it?” the farmer wondered. And then, he realized what the young man’s answer meant, “I can sleep when the wind blows.”  Read more...

Wouldn’t  it be wonderful to have the opportunity to share the gospel message with someone this year?  My prayer is that our family will be able to do this and we plan to have the scriptures easily available in our Bibles. These verses are taken from the Four Spiritual Laws pamphlet.

1. God Loves You!  John 3:16  For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

2. Man is sinful and separated from God.  Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death,” Isaiah 59:2 “But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God.”

3. Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for man’s sin.  John 14:6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.” Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

4. We must individually receive Jesus as Savior and Lord.  John 1:12 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,” Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved,” Ephesians 2:8, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.”  Read more...