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Christian Home Education - Tips and resources for Christian homeschooling.

Home Education Advisory Service - HEAS is a support group which offers information for home educators including advice about educational materials, resources, GCSE examinations, special educational needs, information technology, and legal matters.

Home Education Resource And Learning Development - Support group for families of home-educated children and those interested in the concept of home-based education as an alternative to schooling.

The Underhill Family Home Page - Information about homeshcooling including legalities, FAQ, this family's experiences, articles, resources and local (Warwickshire & Birmingham) activities.

Home-Educate.org - A site to allay your fears if you are considering Home Education. Includes FAQs, Links and methods.

HE Special UK - Provides information, articles, resources and mailing list for parents of children with special needs, who would like to educate at home.

Schoolhouse Home Education Association - Information and support for Scottish families wishing to homeschool. Includes legal section, teen peer support network, news and other resources.

Home Education - Includes legal guidelines, several mailing lists, chat room, articles, events calendar, research questionnaire, FAQs, support group listings, Northern Ireland section, scrapbook, games, quizzes and other resources.

Free Range Education - Resources, links, information, legal help and an e-mail support service called Ask FREd.

Home Educators Seaside Festival - Information on HESFES, an annual week long festival which purports to be the world's largest gathering of home educators.

MuddlePuddle home education - Home education resources and ideas for parents with younger children. Useful links and ideas for science and maths.

Halfmoon Educational Resourses - Ireland-based new and used home education curriculum seller with an emphasis on classical and Christian material. Serving all of Europe.

Choice In Education - Site for an independent home education magazine. Some articles and subscription details. Provides legal guidelines for UK home education in RTF and PDF formats.

Education Otherwise - A membership organisation which provides support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school. Lists general details and contact information.

freedom-in-education - Articles and news about alternatives to conventional, school-based education. Covers early years through to teenage education, with emphasis on education at home. Articles on Montessori, Rudolph Steiner and the Waldorf method as well.

Home Education in the UK - Information and resources for anyone interested in home education in Britain. Many articles about different aspects of education at home, ideas for introducing topics informally, and recommended books.

L.I.F.E. Homeschool Support Group - Activities, photos, law, and links from this Christian, but inclusive, support group. Serves the RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath communities.

NorthStar UK - A British-based organisation, providing online learning in a community context for children aged 11 - 16.

Home Education and bullying - Offers advice on bullying. Organisations that can help, links to other HE families, law and home education story.

w.H.E.n. - Wealden Home Educator's Network - Kent/Sussex and surrounding areas network of home educators. News, support, information, activities and events.

UK Unschooling - Forum and links for practitioners of the "unschooling" philosophy of education.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Homeschooling blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Homeschooling Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman Homeschooling Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Homeschooling the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Homeschooling Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Homeschooling "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. -- Peter The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Homeschooling If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Homeschooling "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Homeschooling "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Homeschooling Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? -- Holbrook Jackson "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Homeschooling The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Homeschooling If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Homeschooling The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Homeschooling There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Homeschooling Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Homeschooling "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Homeschooling Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Homeschooling You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Homeschooling "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Homeschooling Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage. -- Ambrose Bierce "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Homeschooling Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov Homeschooling
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