Raymond S. Moore famous quotes

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.
-- Raymond S. Moore

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An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.
-- Raymond S. Moore

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Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!
-- Raymond S. Moore

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Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.
-- Raymond S. Moore

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.