The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.


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To make headway, improve your head.
B. C. FORBES
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. FORBES
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. FORBES
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
MALCOLM S. FORBES
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
MALCOLM S. FORBES
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
MALCOLM S. FORBES
I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there i...
JOHN FORBES NASH
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to e...
B. C. FORBES
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
B. C. FORBES
...the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston we...
JOHN FORBES NASH
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities...
B. C. FORBES
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
Failure is success if we learn from it.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they ...
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
If you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business.
B. C. FORBES
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
B. C. FORBES
Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. FORBES
Presence is more than just being there.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues in...
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
To measure the man, measure his heart.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of gr...
B. C. FORBES
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES