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| − | Homeschooling is opting out of formal public and private schools in order to educate children in the home or in specially arranged classes or cooperatives. Parents take a more active role in the education of their children when they homeschool. In spite of this, many homeschooled students go on to lead productive and useful lives in normal society. | + | Homeschooling is opting out of formal public and private schools in order to educate children in the home or in specially arranged classes or cooperatives. Parents take a more active role in the education of their children when they homeschool. |
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| | The primary reason for homeschooling is to give the child a better education. A close second in reasons, however, is to avoid the culture of public school and its many adverse effects of hostility to Christianity and parental control, political bias, boredom, confusion, depression, etc. | | The primary reason for homeschooling is to give the child a better education. A close second in reasons, however, is to avoid the culture of public school and its many adverse effects of hostility to Christianity and parental control, political bias, boredom, confusion, depression, etc. |
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| − | Homeschooling is not new, and a disproportionate number of high achievers have been homeschooled throughout history. This is cetainly due to the absence of liberal bias found in the homeschooling environment and the emphasis on practical science, such as [[baraminology]] and other aspects of [[creationism]], dismissed by anti-religion, secularist public school boards. Here is a list of Christian homeschoolers: | + | Homeschooling is not new, and a disproportionate number of high achievers have been homeschooled throughout history. Here is a list of Christian homeschoolers: |
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| | <br>[[Thomas Edison]] | | <br>[[Thomas Edison]] |
| | <br>[[Cyrus McCormick]] | | <br>[[Cyrus McCormick]] |
| − | <br>[[Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft]]
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| | <br>[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]] | | <br>[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]] |
| − | <br>[[Charles Fletcher Lummis]]
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| | <br>[[George Washington]] | | <br>[[George Washington]] |
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| | <br>[[Abraham Lincoln]] | | <br>[[Abraham Lincoln]] |
| | <br>[[Theodore Roosevelt]] | | <br>[[Theodore Roosevelt]] |
| − | <br>[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
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| | <br>[[Joan of Arc]] | | <br>[[Joan of Arc]] |
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| | <br>[[Bernhard Riemann]] | | <br>[[Bernhard Riemann]] |
| | <br>[[Booker T. Washington]] | | <br>[[Booker T. Washington]] |
| − | <br>[[John Walker Lindh]]
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| − | <br>[[Christopher Paolini]]
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| | <br>[[Winston Churchill]] | | <br>[[Winston Churchill]] |
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| | <br>[[Charles Pickney III]] | | <br>[[Charles Pickney III]] |
| | <br>[[George Wyeth]] | | <br>[[George Wyeth]] |
| − | <br>[[Adam Yahiye Gadahn]]
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| | <br>[[Ansel Adams]] | | <br>[[Ansel Adams]] |