Homeschooling, Is It An Alternative Education?

So, you think that homeschooling is an "alternative " form of education? That's odd.  t's actually the very thing that is both natural and normal and has always been considered as a way of imparting knowledge to the next generation.  Homeschooling is highly successful too. Some of the most interesting people I know all had their beginnings in a place called home.

If you think about it, home educating your children is a pretty normal thing to do. People have done it for along time... probably since time began.  Even for children who attend school regularly, their learning begins at home, and at the end of the day, do you know where they go?  Home.  Home, is where you first learn about yourself and your world.  You see, homeschooling, contrary to what you might think, is  not an alternative.  It's the norm. 

For this reason, I want to post another one of those rather notorious lists of some of the more famous people who were home-educated.  You may have seen this list or parts of it ten times, but here it is again.  Some of these people were homeschooled for a few years and others never attended formal school away from home at all, yet there was nothing "uneducated" about them.

 Click on the links, read about them here and then also on your own and you will see how their education did not happen because they were forced to go to public funded school. Their parents taught them, and they may even have had tutors and teachers,but they learned from living life with their families, from exploring, learning and thinking about the world around them, not merely from sitting behind a desk in a classroom with same age peers all day for most of their young lives.  

Schools have their place, and they are intended to be a place of learning and education, but they are not a one size fits all, nor ar they the only place to learn.  On an elementary level schools exist to assist in learning, not to replace parents... not decide what is best for YOUR child.

 True education will not suppress a child's natural love for learning, it will serve to foster their natural intelligence with opportunities to learn with loving discipline, and homeschooling stands the test of time for doing just this.  We must never forget that the the primary,(not alternative) base of human education is the home.  
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Enjoy!

Thomas A. Edison, inventor

Reid Barton, one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads, homeschooled after 3rd grade.

Irving Berlin, composer and lyricist, considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time

Rebecca Black,  singer  

Pearl S.Buck, novelist who was a Pulitzer Prize winner in literature, 1932.

Benjamin Bolger a homeschooled dyxlexic, who holds 27 degrees from more colleges than most persons.  He was homeschooled beginning in 4th grade.

George Washington Carver, scientist, agricultural expert

Sir Winston Lenard Spencer-Churchill, military man, statesman, artist, yes... artist!

Francis Collins, led the Human Genome Project, homeschooled by his mother  until grade 6.

Arran Fernandez, mathematician,and named  "Senior Wrangler" at Cambridge University,.  Check out his age.  

The Jonas Brothers, famous, American pop stars from the Disney Channel 

C.S. Lewis, novelist, homeschooled until he was ten years old.

Joey Logano, NASCAR driver, youngest yet to win a NASCAR Race, (2009) homeschooled after 3rd grade.

Ernst Mach, Physicist,homeschooled by his parents  Ever hear of the Mach Principle?  (Einstein did.)

Maragaret Mead, anthropologist, researcher and author

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist, Awarded Columnist of the Year 2010,  BPA Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011

Jedidiah Purdy, law professor at Duke University, homeschooled until high school

Theodore Roosevelt, President of United States, homeschooled until college 

Tim Tebow, football player, Heisman Trophy recipient (read about the Tim Tebow Law in Florida)

The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, inventors

Andrew Wyeth, artist with museum collections around the world.