Nancy Pearcey

“Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.”

“During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.”

“The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.”

“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”

“The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.”

“The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.”

“Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.”

“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.”

“Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.”

“Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.”

“The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.”

“The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.”

“Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.”

“My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.”

“Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.”

“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.”

“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”

“Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.”

“America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.”

“In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.”