Encouraging Homeschool Quotes 

Looking for some homeschool quotes for motivation and inspiration? Whether you’re just starting out on your homeschooling journey or you’re a seasoned homeschooler, we ALL need a little inspiration from time to time. 

Homeschooling can be incredibly rewarding, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges. That’s where some motivational and inspiring homeschooling quotes can really make a difference.

In this article, I’ve gathered a collection of homeschool quotes that will uplift you if you are feeling burnt out, ignite your passion for homeschooling, nurture a growth mindset, and remind you why you chose this path in the first place. 

These homeschool quotes touch on the joys of learning, the beauty of parenting, and the unique opportunities that homeschooling offers. They are perfect for those moments when you need a quick pick-me-up or a gentle reminder of the incredible impact you’re making in your child’s life.

Inspiring Homeschool Quotes

“Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.” – John Holt

“What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t a school at all” – John Holt

“The best education does not happen at a desk, but rather engaged in everyday living – hands-on, exploring, in active relationship with life.” -Vince Gowman

“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, founder of Wild + Free

“The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.” – Harold B. Lee

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

“From the day you became a parent, you also became a teacher, and you are equipped to teach your child.” -Anne Campbell

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

“I prefer to make those [educational] choices myself. Not because I think I know ‘better’ than all those professional educators, but I do think I know my own children best, and consequently which programs and methods would benefit them. Homeschooling is not about rejecting other people and things; it’s about making personal and positive choices for your own family.” – Mariette Ulrich

“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

“Connection and relationship are at the heart of homeschooling.” – Julie Bogart

“Educating a child is a natural process. Homeschooling is nothing more than an extension of parenting.” – John Taylor Gatto

“We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people.” – Diane Flynn Keith

“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

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost

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

“The education of a child is a work of love.” -Maria Montessori

“Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take the walls away.” – Erin Kenny

“Homeschoolers disprove the common idea that parents and siblings cannot be good friends.” – Rebbecca Devitt

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

“A teaching degree is to homeschooling as a culinary degree is to grandma’s cooking…it just can’t touch the love, care, and personal standard that only she can stir in.” – Dawn Shelton

“Education is every day and everywhere. The only thing you have to pay is attention.” -Tim Fargo

“People say that homeschooled kids are too sheltered from the real world. At what point did sitting behind desks all day become the real world?” -Unknown

“Home-based education is not an experiment. It’s how people learned to function in the world for centuries. And there’s no reason to think people today can’t do the same thing.” -Wendy Priesnitz

“I homeschool because I have seen the village, and I don’t want it raising my kids.” – Unknown

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

“Homeschooling might raise a few eyebrows, and that’s okay.” – Tristan Devitt

“Homeschooling is about creating an environment where learning is a natural part of life.” – Sandra Dodd

“Homeschooling is a lifestyle, not a set of lessons.” – Julie Bogart

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

Child-Led Learning Homeschool Quotes

“We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.” – John Holt

“Child-led learning allows children to follow their passions and encourages a lifelong love of learning.” – Pam Laricchia, founder of Living Joyfully

“When children are given the freedom to explore their own interests, they are more engaged and retain more information.” – Julie Bogart

“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” – Elliot Page

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Kids learn to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” – Alfie Kohn

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”Albert Einstein

“Children are designed, by nature, to learn in the process of playing.” – Peter Gray

“Trusting children is essential to educational success.” – Peter Gray

“The more freedom we give children to learn, the more they learn.” – Peter Gray

“Children learn best when they are free to choose what to learn and when to learn it.” – Peter Gray

“Learning isn’t a race to the finish line; it’s a journey to be savored.” – Julie Bogart

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

“Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play, children learn how to learn.” – O. Fred Donaldson

“Play is the work of the child.” – Maria Montessori

“Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” – Kay Redfield Jamison

“In play, children learn how to learn. Play is essential for development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children.” – Heather Shumaker

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” – Walt Disney

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Henry Fischer

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.” – Maria Montessori

“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover.” – Jean Piaget

“Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up. But a child’s purpose is to be a child.” -Tom Stoppard

“Don’t waste a lot of time and money pushing kids in a direction they don’t want to go. Instead, find out what weirdness they excel at and encourage them to do that. Then get out of the way.” – Seth Godin

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso

“Too often we give young people cut flowers instead of teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John Gardner

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

“You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” -Galileo

Love of Learning Homeschool Quotes

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” – Bill Nye

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day, but if you teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” – Clay P. Bedford

“All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.” – Stephanie Kwolek

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” -Claude Levi-Strauss

“We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.” – Mary Catherine Bateson

General Quotes About Education

“A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.” – Helen Keller

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is not the same as schooling, and schools are not the only, or even the best, places where people learn.” – Peter Gray

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”- Benjamin Franklin

“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.” – Maria Montessori 

“When one teaches, two learn.” -Robert Heinlein

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

“The function of 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.

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King

“The best classroom is a multisensory environment, where kids are constantly moving and doing things.” – John Taylor Gatto

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

“The essence of education is to help you discover your uniqueness, teach you how to develop it, and show you how to give it away.” – Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” – Mark Twain

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne

“Every child can learn – just not on the same day or in the same way.” – George Evans

“When one teaches, two learn.” – Robert Heinlein

“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write, and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier does not equal better.” – Magda Gerber

“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding.” – Robert John Meehan

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

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”  – Malcolm Forbes

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates

“Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

“The point of school is not to get good at school. The point of school is to get good at life.” – Alfie Kohn

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

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

Quotes About Motivation

“You don’t have to be perfect to be a great teacher for your kids. Your presence, love, and commitment are enough.” – Ainsley Arment

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Homeschooling is a journey, not a race. Celebrate the small victories and trust the process.” – Jessica Parnell

“Remember why you started homeschooling. It wasn’t to do school at home, but to make learning an adventure.”  – Kara Anderson

“Homeschooling is a marathon, not a sprint. Take time to rest, reflect, and recharge.” – Sarah Mackenzie

“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”  – Albert Schweitzer

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”  – Walter Elliot

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“If you haven’t failed yet, you haven’t tried anything.” – Reshma Saujani

Quotes About Parenting

“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt

“The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.” – Harold B. Lee

“Parenting is not about having all the answers, but about being there with your child through the questions.” – Avital Schreiber Levy

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”  – Oscar Wilde

“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” -C.S. Lewis

“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” – L.R. Knost

Final Thoughts: Homeschooling Quotes

I hope you’ve found inspiration and motivation from these homeschool quotes to keep you moving forward on your journey. Homeschooling can be challenging, but it’s also filled with moments of joy, discovery, and growth for both you and your children. 

Remember, you are not alone in this adventure. These homeschool quotes from fellow homeschoolers, educators, and thinkers remind us that learning is a lifelong process. Embrace the freedom, keep a grateful mindset, cherish the moments of play, and trust in the process of child-led learning. 

Whenever you need a mental boost, turn to these homeschool quotes or pick up your favorite homeschooling book. Let them remind you of the wonderful opportunities that homeschooling provides.

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Remember to celebrate the victories, laugh through the challenges, and, most importantly, enjoy the homeschooling journey with your family!