In Support of Homeschooling
May 12, 2010 > 2 Comments
It is no secret to my regular readers that I am a homeschooler. I support homeschooling and believe that it is my God-given responsibility to educate my children.
I would like to share this blog post written by Brandon Staggs. In my opinion it is one of the best and simplest articles explaining from God’s Word the reason a lot of us decide to home educate our children.
Recently, surfing the internet for education helps, I came across this quote by the Father of Communism, Karl Marx.
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.
This quote got me searching for other similar quotes by people that didn’t intend for their comments to actually support a person’s decision to homeschool. Here is what I found:
When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.- Adolf Hitler
Make me the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. –Baron Gottfried von Leibnitz 1716
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
To commit our children to the care of irreligious people is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves. — Timothy Dwight, President of Yale 1795-1817
Fifty years ago, they taught Latin and Greek in high schools. Today, they teach remedial English in colleges. — Butler Shaffer
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. – Albert Einstein
I have no patience with the stupidity of the average teacher of grammar who wastes precious years in hammering rules into children’s heads. For it is not by learning rules that we acquire the powers of speaking a language, but by daily intercourse with those accustomed to express themselves with exactness and refinement and by copious reading of the best authors. – Erasmus, Reformation theologian and teacher
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
Now, I know that this is a hot topic for many and I sincerely do not intend for this to make anyone mad. Especially as I am merely quoting what other people said who had little to no intention of encouraging homeschooling.
I also understand that the way you educate your children is a personal matter and one you have to make for yourself. But I just want to encourage you to prayerfully and thoughtfully make this decision, because what can be more important than God’s heritage, our children?
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May 13th, 2010 @ 2:51 pm
Loved your article! The link to the other homeschooling article was great as well! It seems as though, while I have homeschooled from the very begining of my child’s education it wasn’t till the last election that I realized the implication behind the public schools. Guess socialism crept in with many of us just thinking it was the states way of making sure we all got a good education. I suppose many of us, that when provided with something for free, did not question the consequences of such accomodations. We are very much like sheep and it is a bummer to see the consequences to the family! I still believe there are some that shouldn’t homeschool but those reasons are most frequently excuses which is a shame. Thank you for your thoughts!
Theresa
May 19th, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
Thank *you* Theresa for your positive feed-back. It’s always nice to know you’re not alone. Happy Homeschooling! – Amanda