Ka Hana Pono School House: July 2012

Todays mighty oak tree is just yesterdays nut that held its ground. - David Icke

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular - but one must take it because it's right. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects. ~ Dorothy Sayers

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think. ~ Bertrand Russell

To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society. ~ President Theodore Roosevelt

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 furnish it. ~ President William Howard Taft

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

We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. ~ Diane Flynn Keith

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
~ Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

The idea of learning acceptable social skills in a school is as absurd to me as learning nutrition from a grocery store. ~ Lisa Russell

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 child's natural bent. ~ Plato

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry. ~ Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ~ Jerome S. Bruner

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

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~ Chinese Proverb

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. ~ Thomas Edison, on his failure to achieve a working lightbulb

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 'motivation'.
A child has no stronger desire than to make sense of the world, to move freely in it, to do the things that he sees bigger people doing. ~ John Holt

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeats

Retarded? Disturbed? Attention Deficit? When I read those weak excuses for the schools' failures, I have a definite Belief Deficit. ~ Donn Reed

A totalitarian state will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. ~ Adolf Hitler

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense. ~ Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ~ Albert Einstein

Ka Hana Pono School House

Monday, July 2, 2012

Socialization Is A Benefit of Homeschooling