Quotes from John Taylor Gatto, former New York (Public School) Teacher of the Year, and promoter of homeschooling:

"The example [of homeschooling] is so glaringly positive compared to the example of the other side that inevitably more and more people will be drawn to do this, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the best thing to do..."

To homeschoolers, Gatto says:

"What you should be doing is exactly what you are doing now:  spending about 90 percent of your time solving the problems of rearing your family decently and bringing the best out of your kids, and giving them a sense of religious purpose and civic purpose and personal power and strength.  I've come to believe that most of the power that this other side has is not through their armies; it's through our fear that if we don't do what they tell us to do that somehow we'll lose out.  Ignore these people's attempts to infect you with fear.  If your kid knows how to read well (I think that's very important), count well, has a good attitude, loves work (sees that work is a grace and not a curse), your kid is practically impregnable."

- from an interview published in Homeschooling Today magazine, January/February 2001