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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.
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.
Homeschooling is not new, and a disproportionate number of high achievers have been homeschooled throughout history. Examples include Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison.
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.
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>Leonardo da Vinci
<br>Claude Monet
<br>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
<br>
<br>Stonewall Jackson
<br>John Paul Jones
<br>Robert E. Lee
<br>Douglas MacArthur
<br>George Patton
<br>
<br>Alexander Graham Bell
<br>Thomas Edison
<br>Cyrus McCormick
<br>Orville and Wilbur Wright
<br>
<br>George Washington
<br>John Quincy Adams
<br>Thomas Jefferson
<br>James Madison
<br>William Henry Harrison
<br>John Tyler
<br>Abraham Lincoln
<br>Theodore Roosevelt
<br>
<br>Joan of Arc
<br>John the Baptist
<br>Jesus Christ
<br>William Cary
<br>Jonathan Edwards
<br>Dwight L. Moody
<br>John Newton
<br>Charles Wesley
<br>John Wesley
<br>Brigham Young
<br>
<br>George Washington Carver
<br>Pierre Curie
<br>Charles Louis Montesquieu
<br>Blaise Pascal
<br>Booker T. Washington
<br>
<br>Winston Churchill
<br>Benjamin Franklin
<br>Patrick Henry
<br>William Penn
<br>Henry Clay
<br>
<br>John Jay
<br>John Marshall
<br>John Rutledge
<br>
<br>Hans Christian Andersen
<br>Pearl S. Buck
<br>Agatha Christie
<br>Charles Dickens
<br>Bret Harte
<br>C.S. Lewis
<br>Sean O’Casey
<br>George Bernard Shaw
<br>Mark Twain
<br>Daniel Webster
<br>
<br>George Clymer
<br>Benjamin Franklin<ref>raised a Christian, Benjamin Franklin's religious beliefs late in life are disputed</ref>
<br>William Livingston
<br>George Mason
<br>Charles Pickney III
<br>George Wyeth
<br>
<br>Ansel Adams
<br>Clara Barton
<br>John Burroughs
<br>Andrew Carnegie
<br>George Rogers Clark
<br>Florence Nightingale
<br>Leo Tolstoy
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<br>and … you???
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