Home: The Best Place to Learn

Here's a compilation of quotes (that I will continue adding to) about the importance of teaching children at home. Some of them are by leaders in the Mormon church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints). To be clear, I'm not, and these quotes are not necessarily saying homeschool is the answer for everyone. Nevertheless, these are great quotes for any parent to ponder as they decide on the best type of schooling for their children.

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
― David O. McKay

"Unfortunately, far too many parents in today's world have abdicated the responsibility to teach these values and other Church doctrines to their families, believing that others will do it: the peer group, the school, Church leaders and teachers, or even the media. Every day our children are learning, filling their minds and hearts with experiences and perceptions that deeply influence personal value systems." M. Russell Ballard, Like A Flame Unquenchable, Church News, April 4, 1999
(Link to "Like A Flame Unquenchable")

"Teaching in the home is becoming increasingly important in today's world, where the influence of the adversary is so widespread and he is attacking, attempting to erode and destroy the very foundation of our society, even the family. Parents must resolve that teaching in the home is a most sacred and important responsibility." Here is the full talk: "Mothers Teaching Children in the Home," by Elder L. Tom Perry, General Conference April 2010

“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

"More important...you've assembled a curriculum that works for him. It's his education. I suspect he's more likely to have a real education, an education that sticks, if he's part of shaping it.”
― Quinn Cummings, The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling