Schooling or Education?

 

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school.

It would have rubbed off some of my originality."   

Beatrix Potter

I was chatting with a couple of young homeschooling moms at church last night. They had been to a curriculum showing earlier in the day. What a blessing to share in their enthusiasm for training their children at home! It isn't an easy road, but everyone will benefit. The children, obviously, but mom and dad will, too, as God uses daily experiences and their love for their children to change them more into His divine image of parenthood.

A few thoughts about schooling and education from some famous others:

"I've never let school interfere with my education."   

Mark Twain 

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Albert Einstein

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in flower pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences."

Anne Sullivan ~ Helen Keller's teacher

"You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
Schooling or education? There is a difference!