30 Encouraging and Inspiring Home Education Quotes

Home Education can be hard and sometimes we need a pick-me-up or a little something to make us realise that what we’re doing is the right choice. So, what better way to stay motivated than with these 30 encouraging and inspiring Home Education quotes!

“When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower”
Alexander Den Heijer

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read. There are only children who have not found the right book”
Frank Serafini

“Your child is not behind, they’re exactly where they need to be”
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“We cannot solve our problems using the same thinking we used when we created them”
Albert Einstein

“When you feel like you’re not doing enough, you’re doing more than enough”
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“We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations”
Freeman Dyson

“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

“In school, every day is the same. In life, every day is different”
Liberated to Learn

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent”
Gandhi

“Learning shouldn’t feel unnatural or forced. It’s one of the most natural things in life”
Liberated to Learn

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school”
Albert Einstein

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day or in the same way”
George Evans

“A child only educated at school is an uneducated child”
George Santayana

“The best teachers are those who tell you where to look but don’t tell you what to see”
Alexandra K Trenfor

“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

“Children cannot be liberated by education behind four walls when there’s a world of learning out there”
Liberated to Learn

“All the world is my school”
George Whitman

“Education is the movement from darkness to light”
Allan Bloom

“Dear friend, don’t let the bustling culture determine the needs of your own children. You get to choose how they grow up. You can protect their time, energy, and imagination. You are the gatekeeper of the garden of their childhood”
Ainsley Arment

“You don’t need much to Home Educate but it will give your child everything”
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“Learning should not be tested; it should be discovered and rediscovered again and again”
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”
William Butler Yeats

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

“A bad day means good lessons are learnt”
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There is never too much or too little learning, only what is consistently enough
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“Play is the work of the child”
Maria Montessori

“Children are the masters of their own course and the navigators of their own journey. Trust them more than yourself”
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“From the day you became a parent, you also became a teacher, and you are equipped to teach your child”
Anne Campbell

“Children are not meant to be rushed, tested or compared. They are not meant to live up to other people’s expectations. Instead, they should live up to their own”
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