Jessica

“Instead, children are being brought up by immature persons who cannot possibly guide them to maturity. They are being brought up by each other.”
― Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

“true education is perhaps more about a culture than it is about a curriculum; that it is more about a way of life than it is merely a way of doing; that it is a vision of what God has called us to rather than a mechanical set of prescriptives; that it is about faith,”
― AmblesideOnline Education Foundation, Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

“For the first time in history young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role—their own peers. They are not manageable, teachable, or maturing because they no longer take their cues from adults.”
― Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

“The wider a man’s knowledge becomes, the deeper should be his humility; for the more he knows the more he sees of what remains unknown. The wider the diameter of light, the larger the circumference of darkness. And so, with every footstep of growing knowledge there ought to be a growing humility—that is the best guarantee both for a sound philosophy and a sound faith. (Moffatt, p. 352)”
― AmblesideOnline Education Foundation, Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline