Gordon B. Hinckley

“A truly educated man never ceases to learn.”

--Gordon B. Hinckley

Jeanne DuPrau

“...look at all the remarkable things [they] had done! It wasn’t because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.”

--Jeanne DuPrau

Joyce Kinmont

What is school? At best it is life itself. At worst, it is an institutionalized imitation of life. The more closely the institution comes to duplicating life outside the institution, the better the school. So home school includes all of life, and in everyone's life, young or old, time should be set aside every day for scripture study, academic pursuits, developing talents, and for recreation. 
--Joyce Kinmont

Ken Parker

It is important to understand that it is religion that bring relevancy to education. How we interpret knowledge founded upon our religious beliefs. Children, as well as adults, want to know WHY things are the way they are. "Why" questions surface all the time in teaching and learning settings. Public and even private schools are limited in how they can answer fundamental "why" questions that will surface from every subject, from mathematics to history, from English to geography. How can children ever understand truth without the basis of religion?

Of all the wonderful aspects of home schooling. I feel that the greatest blessing lies in our opportunity to fully answer "why" questions. When a child asks a "why" question, entirely new areas of learning open to view, and new dimensions of knowledge are explored. since these new dimensions relate to the original subject, "relevancy" occurs (it makes sense, it fits, it's interesting, it's understood), or, in other words, learning takes place, correct knowledge is transferred.

But the home school opportunity of answering "why" questions goes much deeper. "Why" questions eventually lead to discussions about our basic beliefs, our value system, our religious convictions. Ultimately, it is religion that brings relevancy to education. Since education influences what we do and think, and doing and thinking is what life is made of, it follows that religion is what brings relevancy to life.

--Ken Parker

Lloyd Alexander

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

― Lloyd Alexander

L.M. Montgomery

“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.”

― L.M. Montgomery

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

L.M. Montgomery

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”

― L.M. Montgomery