A few years ago, I was approached by a woman who wanted to write my life history as a woman homeschooling advocate as her PhD thesis. While doing her MA research, she had been struck by the lack of women’s voices in the academic literature. She did write that thesis as a contribution to the literature, and there are now a number of other women choosing this topic for their research. There have also been many popular books written on the subject of home-based education / unschooling over the past five or ten years (not to mention a few going back twenty or thirty years, including my first book School Free).

So why, then, do those ubiquitious lists of quotations about the problems with schools and the benefits of self-directed education contain mostly male voices?

I have set out to remedy this. Already, on my main blog, there are a number of such quotes by both men and women. But I’d like to collect more. So please email me with your favorites. (I’ve closed comments on this blog due to an extremely high level of spam.) I will collate them and post the list on the Life Learning Magazine site.