Difference between revisions of "Homeschooling"
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Revision as of 00:19, February 27, 2007
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.
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:
Homeschooled Christians
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stonewall Jackson
John Paul Jones
Robert E. Lee
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Cyrus McCormick
Orville and Wilbur Wright
George Washington
John Quincy Adams
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Joan of Arc
John the Baptist
Jesus Christ
William Cary
Jonathan Edwards
Dwight L. Moody
John Newton
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Brigham Young
George Washington Carver
Pierre Curie
Charles Louis Montesquieu
Blaise Pascal
Bernhard Riemann
Booker T. Washington
Adam Yahiye Gadahn[1]
John Walker Lindh[2] Checkered educational history, in and out of public schools, partly homeschooled
Franklin D. Roosevelt[3] (private tutors at home through age 14, then entered Groton)
Winston Churchill
Patrick Henry
William Penn
Henry Clay
John Jay
John Marshall
John Rutledge
Hans Christian Andersen
Pearl S. Buck
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Bret Harte
C.S. Lewis
Sean O’Casey
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
Daniel Webster
George Clymer
William Livingston
George Mason
Charles Pickney III
George Wyeth
Ansel Adams
Clara Barton
John Burroughs
Andrew Carnegie
George Rogers Clark
Florence Nightingale
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Fletcher Lummis
Christopher Paolini
