Ben Hewitt Quotes.

1. "When we carry a safety net made of cash, we allow the one made of community to slip through our fingers."
- Quote by Ben Hewitt

2. "Of all the things I have learned since becoming a parent(and sometimes, it feels as if this might be everything I've learned), perhaps the hardest to accept is that it is selfish and possibly even dangerous to desire particular outcomes for our children."
- Quote by Ben Hewitt

3. "I dropped out of high school to pursue a self-designed study program in excessively loud heavy metal music and extreme partying. - From his blog"
- Quote by Ben Hewitt

4. "What if the point were not to know as much as possible but to feel as much as possible?"
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path

5. "the more thoroughly I liberate myself from prevailing cultural assumptions—around education, wealth, ambition, and success, to name but a few—the more choice I actually have. The more freedom I have."
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path

6. "Of all the things I want for them, connection to this place and a sense of knowing how they fit into this world usurps all others. I want this for them more than happiness, because I think mere happiness is a shallow elucidation of the human experience, and by itself is not a particularly sturdy emotional foundation upon which to build a fulfilling life. I want this for them more than success, at least insofar as our culture has come to define success as being a product of money and power and recognition. I want this for them more than physical vitality, because I believe that good health--and not just health of body, but also of emotion and spirit--is only possibly when one feels connected to and secure in their place."
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path

7. "My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being."
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path

8. "Many parents aren’t all that accustomed to being patient and present for their kids anymore, if only because they’re simply not given the opportunity to be patient and present. Jobs get in the way. School gets in the way. After-school activities get in the way. As I have learned—as I am still learning—patience and presence are muscles that must be developed and exercised regularly."
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path

9. "I wonder if we have it all backward. And I wonder how the world might be if we viewed the very reason for our existence as being not about control and security but about surrender. Not to our fears and insecurities but to our sense of what is possible, to the belief that we all have the ability to shape the world as we imagine it, and that our actions reflect this imagined world until it becomes not imagined, but real."
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path

10. "We are all interconnected and interdependent, and because of this, we are all only as rich as we enrich those around us. I"
- Ben Hewitt, Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path