A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.