"Certainly the failure rate among schoolchildren is far higher than homeschoolers. If 'failure to educate' means child neglect or even child abuse, well then, I'll tell you what, plenty of our schools are in big trouble."
(David Guterson - Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense)
“I quit college and enrolled as a student at the University of Planet Earth, the world’s oldest and largest educational institution. It has billions of professors, tens of millions of books, and unlimited course offerings. Tuition is free, and everybody designs his or her own major.” (William Upski Wimsatt, in Utne Reader, May/June, 1998)
“Our ‘Tell’em-and-test’em’ way of teaching leaves most students increasingly confused, aware that their academic success rests on shaky foundations, and convinced that school is mainly a place where you follow meaningless procedures to get meaningless answers to meaningless questions…” (John Holt, How Children Fail)
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