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Julie Bogart QUOTES

Julie Bogart QUOTES

1 " On some intuitive level, I knew that learning had to be more than the mastery of facts. I've experienced it as an adult. I become consumed with a subject like quilting or preparing yogurt cultures, and that topic takes over my life - fabric scraps scattered on the floor, little jars of white sludge cuddled by blankets on my kitchen countertops. When I learned to play guitar in my thirties, no one had to schedule my practices. My guitar lived on a stand in the living room and I tormented our ears multiple times a day until my fingers bled. Passion for learning has that fiery, consuming, can't-stop quality. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

2 " If homeschooling stops being a source of joy, begin by shifting your attention to the awesome adult you want to be. Just that shift can inject energy into a flagging homeschool. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

3 " Connect to your children. The academics matter, but they follow. Your children’s happiness and safe, supportive relationship with you come first. Believe it or not, your children are happiest when they believe you are delighted by them. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

4 " The key to a successful education is not remembering the sequence of battles in World War I or getting an A on the geometry test. A robust education is the ability to make meaningful use of any and all information. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

5 " To have a more effective home education, I realized I needed to abandon the trappings of school and harness the energy of home. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

6 " It is a truth universally acknowledged that a child in possession of a good instructor must be in want of an education. Alas, kids don’t care. It’s impossible to demand inspiration, passion, or self-discipline without affinity for learning. Let me rephrase that: you can’t coerce caring. Adults try! We use grades, little statues, and ice cream sundaes to prod kids into reading, diagramming sentences, and practicing piano. Meanwhile that same child will stand in the hot sun for five hours shooting free throws to break a personal record. No reward except satisfaction. How do we get more of that into traditional school subjects? "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

7 " If you send a child to therapy before you've been for yourself, the child rightly discerns that you consider the child the problem. If, however, you've used therapy in your life before asking your child to go, she learns that therapy is a natural choice for people who want to live conscious, healthy lives. Therapy is good emotional and mental hygiene - just as teeth cleanings and going to the gym are good for physical health. Nothing to be ashamed of! "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

8 " Because people are innately social and in search of meaning, our relationships and emotions—not rote memory or the right textbooks—are key to learning. In other words, when your child feels connected and happy, your child is learning the most. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

9 " A happy house for homeschool is one where every inch is used for learning, messes are welcomed, people are more precious than furnishings, and household maintenance is a varying standard with fluctuating amounts of help, and we’re all okay with it most of the time. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

10 " A lifestyle of learning begins at home - with parents who create a context that is welcoming of children as they are and that offers them happy experiences, accessible tools, and parental involvement. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

11 " The key to a kinder and gentler homeschool is attending to the details we overlook—the coziness of our homes, the principles of natural learning, and the tenderness of our intimate relationships. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

12 " Let’s get one thing straight. Homeschooling is messy. The more kids you have, the messier it is. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

13 " Learning is not only tied to reading thick old books, writing serious academic essays, and advancing in mathematics. Today, it’s just as critical to be innovative, to collaborate, and to imagine. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

14 " A child will risk telling you her desires if she believes you're a receptive audience. She'll conceal them if she doubts your support. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

15 " If we believe that education is unique for each child, we can relax into whatever time it takes to learn rather than flipping out when our kids don’t line up with what Becky’s children are doing down the street. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

16 " Books (offline, not on digital devices) are best for training our kids to be deep readers. Critically thinking about the content of what they read can only come after that immersive, slower-moving, undistracting experience. Naturally, reading proficiency is key here. "

― Julie Bogart , Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age

17 " What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t a school at all. —JOHN HOLT "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

18 " What matters: being open to the varying abilities of our kids and standing with them as they grow. All we have are love and trying. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

19 " The academic task is about service—each of us contributing to the centuries-old great conversation in our field of study, using our voices to expand the symphony of ideas, for the flourishing of all people (my people, your people), everywhere. “What can I do where I am?” is the clarifying goal for a robust, meaningful education. Too often, schooling feels more like this: “I have to pass the math test so I can take another math test. "

― Julie Bogart , Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent's Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age

20 " Enchanted education and living are all about small surprises of happy—scattered, littered, peppered throughout garden-variety days. "

― Julie Bogart , The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life