The Confident Homeschooler Quotes

“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?”
― Pam Barnhill, The Confident Homeschooler: How to Thrive in the Day-to-Day

“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
― Pam Barnhill, The Confident Homeschooler: How to Thrive in the Day-to-Day

“I cut our school time to the most important and let the kids have the rest of the time to play — which it turns out is pretty important for their learning anyway.”
― Pam Barnhill, The Confident Homeschooler: How to Thrive in the Day-to-Day