I am into quotes for my family blog.  I try to find inspiration in different quotes for different reasons, whether it be running (for this massive weight loss program I’m on) for writing, for family struggles or happy times, and for friends….   I was looking for a quote on a new site that I found and I happen to miss-click and I found myself on education.  I ran across this one and thought I would share it……  I thought that it would inspire, help lift and maybe calm, even a little bit, fears that you might have.

We as “teachers” at home, need to stand together, stand strong, and help one-another….  Our support for each other helps us grow, learn and become better parents and teachers.

No doubt to teach one’s own children…takes special qualities. But these are qualities that many people have, or with a little help, can get. …The home-schooling movement is full of such people, “ordinary” people doing things that they never would have thought they could do - learning the law, questioning the experts, holding their ground against arrogant and threatening authoritiues, defending themselves and their convictions… Seeing them, other ordinary people think they can do the same, and soon they do. This is why it may be a little misleading to speak of the homeschooling “movement.” Most people think of a movement as something like an army, a few generals and a great many buck privates. In the movement for homeschooling, everyone is a general.

-John Holt, Teach Your Own (New York:Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981) pp. 68-69.