Rebecca Stead
Related JODI BENSON Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling enviro... GENE ROYER We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they com... VODDIE T. BAUCHAM JR. [Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of ... RAYMOND S. MOORE We want our children to become who they are--- and a developed person is, above all, free. But freed... GREGORY J. MILLMAN H.L. MENCKEN Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently be... RICHARD MITCHELL PALOMA FAITH NANCY PEARCEY JOHN HOLT The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children becom... LORI MCWILLIAM PICKERT Allowing children to learn about what interests them is good, but helping them do it in a meaningful... LORI MCWILLIAM PICKERT Children, even when very young, have the capacity for inventive thought and decisive action. They ha... LORI MCWILLIAM PICKERT To learn how to do, we need something real to focus on — not a task assigned by someone else, but ... LORI MCWILLIAM PICKERT We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of ... DIANE FLYNN KEITH An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators conside... THOMAS MOORE EZRA TAFT BENSON MAHATMA GANDHI AGATHA CHRISTIE EZRA POUND JOHN HOLT I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, ... LARRY BISHOP Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a pl... RACHEL GATHERCOLE JULIA WARD HOWE NOAM CHOMSKY STEVE HARVEY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON RON WHITE MERYL STREEP NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU ADAM BRODY JONATHAN KOZOL BEN ELTON I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't ha... NEIL CAVUTO DAVID CASSIDY ANTHONY HOPKINS I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic. RUPERT GRINT CARL HONORE Politics: Poly. MANY MICHELLE OBAMA WALE Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've di... NATHAN WOLFE JOHN HUGHES LADY GAGA JOHN BARRASSO TIMOTHY MURPHY I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told fr... MELISSA MCCARTHY NICK CAVE JOYCE CAROL OATES I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been v... ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, ext... CLAIRE MESSUD My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least ... STEVE BALLMER COLIN POWELL I don't know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I'm a girl power. So many ... QANDEEL BALOCH Unfortunately, while many families have received trailers and mobile homes, there are tens of thousa... BARBARA SARD EDWARD NORTON I don't know many artists who've come out of Beverly Hills, y'know? You need that strugg... ANDERSON PAAK KURT VONNEGUT INGMAR BERGMAN I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION I don't have that many friends. AGYNESS DEYN Many families also add optional items such as sex offender registry checks as well as DMV checks. KATHLEEN WEBB Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. ACHILLE MARAMOTTI I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried ... KAJOL I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't m... UZO ADUBA I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don'... NEON HITCH ROB LOWE I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got ream... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things... CARMEN EJOGO MARIA BAMFORD MAXINE KUMIN DAVID LYNCH ILAN STAVANS I beg to differ with the word dysfunctional. The families I work with have issues that many families... JO FROST R. A. SALVATORE GIL SCOTT-HERON I don't have any tattoos - I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can... DREE HEMINGWAY I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that ... LENORA CRICHLOW It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records... JESMYN WARD FOREST WHITAKER LAUREN VELEZ DAN BROWN CHARLES BRONSON ARIEL SHARON ALDEN EHRENREICH GEORGE HARRISON I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe. ED GILLESPIE CLINT EASTWOOD Growing up, I've had plenty of obstacles, but to be honest, I didn't always have doubters. I... ROMAN REIGNS ANITA BAKER You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderfu... IMOGEN POOTS I don't have many walls that I put up. AUSTIN BUTLER JA RULE ALISON SWEENEY MICHELLE BRANCH SPIRO T. AGNEW I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator. DANIEL SNYDER NICKI MINAJ STEPHEN COLBERT
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Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially wi... 
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the ... 
I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people bo... 
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ... 
No doubt to teach one's own children...takes special qualities. But these are qualities that many p... 
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. 
There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. 
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ... 
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi... 
Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. ... 
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
all that we have been able to teach them of charit... 
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. 
I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of th... 
I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any m... 
My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I've been through ... 
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many ... 
I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. ... 
If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally. 
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public ... 
I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible thing... 
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. 
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I'... 
When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing. 
Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge a... 
I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. I... 
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But... 
I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself... 
For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthope... 
As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who ha... 
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occup... 
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copi... 
Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne... 
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villai... 
When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been... 
I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have. 
I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who we... 
I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got ream... 
I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha... 
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagis... 
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I ... 
How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people ... 
I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't... 
As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dish... 
I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been ... 
I don't have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything... 
I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still f... 
These families have been able to retain ownership of their land through the Depression, droughts, fr... 
You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withst... 
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a g... 
You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. 
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. 
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid.... 
I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate famili... 
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and gra... 
I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't... 
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some exte... 
I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looke... 
I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a... 
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b... 
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revoluti... 
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig... 
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend... 
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... 
The erosion of privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment, written to protect us against unreasonable... 
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m... 
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... 
The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med... 
The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... 
How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... 
Being classy is my teenage rebellion. 
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make... 
Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the cou... 
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He... 
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in... 
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if techn... 
An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int... 
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them. 
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me. 