• "It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

  We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence.

  Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

  It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character.

  Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.

  How vital are mother's influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!" --Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower Excerpted from a talk entitled The Honored Place of Woman a talk given in a General Relief Society meeting in October, 1981

• It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the curiosity of inquiry. --Albert Einstein

• There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. --George Bernard Shaw

• I tried to never let my schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain

• My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. --Margaret Mead

• When I think back on all the nonsense I was taught in school, it's a wonder I can think at all. --Paul Simon

• How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home. --Winston Churchill

• I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to let me teach a curriculum that doesn't hurt kids, but they always had other fish to fry. If you hear of a job where I don't have to hurt kids to make a living, let me know. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything, but blind obedience. --John Taylor Gatto- New York Teacher of the Year

• I loathed everyday and regret every moment I spent in a school. --Woody Allen

• Education is nothing like the filling of a reluctant pail. It is the lighting of a fire. --William Butler Yeats

• Schools don't care one bit what students think. --John Holt

• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to be built on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.Let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table while a syrupy-voiced teacher suggest that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower pots. Such "teaching" fills the mind with artificial associations which must be gotten rid of, before the child can develop any independent ideas out of actual experience. --Anne Sullivan

• I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. --Thomas Edison

• Together we have come to realize that the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. --Ivan Illich

The underlying principal upon which our home school has been built is stated succinctly by President Gordon B. Hinckley: "The home is the cradle of virtue, the place where character is formed and habits are established."