50 Homeschool Quotes About the Growing Education Option

By Stephanie Kirby | Published March 8, 2023

These homeschool quotes are about the popular and growing educational option for parents.

If you are concerned about what your kids are learning at public schools or their safety, one option is homeschooling.

Homeschooling is a growing trend among parents as they look for alternatives to traditional public or private schools.

Although each state has its own rules and requirements for homeschooled students, the option does exist to school your children at home.

With today’s technology, you can choose to use any number of curriculum options, including online learning from your public school in some cases.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are multiple reasons that parents are starting to choose to homeschool their children.

Some of the reasons include concern about the school environment, including safety or peer pressure, a desire for moral instruction, a desire for a non-traditional learning path, and many others.

Look at these homeschool quotes to learn more about this trending education option.

You will also enjoy our article on education quotes.

Homeschool Quotes from Parents

Check out some of these quotes from parents who have homeschooled their children.

1. “An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.” — Charlotte Mason

2. “Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.” — Sandra Dodd

3. “I homeschool my children not to prepare them for exams, but to prepare them for life.” — Tamara L. Chilver

4. “The first real lesson I learned as a homeschool teacher is that … it’s the students that lead the way.” — Patti Armstrong

5. “Homeschooling allows you to make the curriculum fit the child, rather than making the child fit the curriculum” — Homeschool with Love

6. “Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.” — Tamara L. Chilver

7. “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

8. “What was important was that we had time together…nothing can replace that. You can have that time too. Concentrate on the positives, and enjoy your time with your kids.” — Barbara Frank

9. “Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They are constantly reminded they are “preparing for real life,” while being isolated from it.” — Sandra Dodd

10. “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 and other children of all ages.” — Rachel Gathercole

Encouraging Homeschool Quotes

Take a look at these homeschool quotes that are sure to encourage you.

11. “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” — Mr. Rogers

12. “When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.” — Elizabeth Foss

13. “Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.” — Roger Lewin

14. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn

15. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo

16. “Homeschooled children benefit the community because they are not shaped by peers but by parents.” — Mary Kay Clark

17. “Homeschooling is about helping make it possible for children to reach maturity with healthy, curious, fully conscious minds.” — Earl Gary Stevens

18. “Kids blossom and get bigger from doing adult things because they want to, instead of kid-things they have to do because they’re small.” — Sandra Dodd

19. “Homeschooling is not a race to the finish line; it’s a journey of a million small discoveries on the path that God has marked out for you.” — Jeannie Fulbright

20. “Children learn best through their everyday experiences with the people they love and trust, and when the learning is fun.” — Center for Families, Communities, Schools and Children’s Learning

Thought-Provoking Homeschool Quotes

Here are some thought-provoking quotes about homeschooling to get your mind working.

21. “The home is the chief school of human virtues.” — William Channing

22. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris

23. “Homeschooling is about growing and learning, not about being perfect.” — Kathy Oaks

24. “Thank goodness I was never sent to school: it would have rubbed off some of the originality.” — Beatrix Potter

25. “The difference between me and other mothers is that I’d rather hire out the cleaning than the children’s learning.” — Theresa Thomas

26. “Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” — Katrina Gutleben

27. “Once I realized we didn’t need to recreate the traditional classroom, and that we could customize our kids’ education, I discovered a new type of freedom.” — Kent Larson

28. “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

29. “Don’t worry about socialization. Wherever people congregate, there is going to be interaction, socialization.” Where is it written that it needs to be in schools?” — Mary Kay Clark

30. “We ask children to do for most of a day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn’t interest us, can keep our minds from wandering?” — John Holt

Positive Homeschool Quotes

Here are some positive quotes about homeschooling.

31. “All the world is my school.” — George Whitman

32. “When one teaches, two learn.” — Robert Heinlein

33. “Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life.” — Charlotte Mason

34. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.” — Edward Everett

35. “Parents and families are the first and most important teachers.” — Richard W. Riley

36. “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

37. “Homeschool mama, you can’t be everything to everyone. You are not taco night.” — Kara Anderson

38. “From the day you became a parent, you also became a teacher, and you are equipped to be a teacher.” — Anne Campbell

39. “Children are born with all the curiosity they will ever need. it will last a lifetime if they are fed upon a daily diet of ideas.” — Charlotte Mason

40. “Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write, and count. Childhood is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace which is right for each individual child.” — Magda Gerber

The Best Homeschool Quotes

Enjoy some of the best quotes about homeschooling!

41. “Children spell love… T-I-M-E.” — Dr. A. Witham

42. “Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin

43. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats

44. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” — Ignacio Estrada

45. “The gardener does not make the plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create the optimal conditions.” — Ken Robinson

46. “By letting our children lead us to their own special places, we can rediscover the joy and wonder of nature.” — Richard Louv

47. “I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.” — Henri Poincare

49. “With thirty-two kids in a room, it is impossible to cater education toward each child. Children do have to wait because there are a lot of children to wait for.” — Nikki Schaefer

50. “The function of true education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” — Martin Luther King Jr.