Joyce Kinmont

Most parents who home school do so because they want something better for their children than what is usually meant by the real world. Actually, the real world encompasses a lot of places and a lot of lifestyles. None of us can be comfortable in all places. The skid row alcoholic, for example, would be just as uncomfortable in a temple as a prophet would be in a bar. Some people consider it a mark of maturity for their children to slip easily into jr. high; other parents do not want their children to fit into that atmosphere, ever. Parents must decide which corner of the real world they want their children to be comfortable in and then prepare them for that life. If they are to be most comfortable in sacred homes and temples, they need to grow up in holy places.
--Joyce Kinmont

Joyce Kinmont

The idea that children must spend great quantities of time in same-age groups is a theory of man and has no basis in fact or scripture. Actually, large groups of undirected children tend to become trivia-oriented, mean-spirited and competitive. Home schooled children are not isolated; they merely have their socializing within the family and within the social groups chosen by the family.
--Joyce Kinmont

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

William Butler Yeats

"Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire."
--William Butler Yeats

Norma Luce

A man will the price if he wants the prize.
--Norma Luce

Benjamin Franklin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
--Benjamin Franklin

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