SUCCESS IN HOMESCHOOLING
Homeschooling may bring about many questions and concerns for people who have encountered this for the first time. Many might question the quality of education or how much one can learn from being homeschooled.
There are many reasons why parents would want their children to be homeschooled.
These include the following:
- Individualized Learning Opportunity – where the child gets much attention and help on certain activities or lessons they have problem coping with. Usually being neglected in a classroom setting since the teacher-student ratio is big, thus going through each student’s progress carefully is almost impossible. In homeschooling the parents can setup a curriculum for their children to follow in their homeschooling education to best fit their interests and existing talents or skills.
- More Family Time – being homeschooled can bring the child closer to the family, because more time is spent at home and can be used to do some family bonding like going on trips, vacations, and attending out of town events with the parents and relatives. No need to suffer from the worries of parents not being around for the kids due to work related travel and relocation.
- Moral And Religious Foundation – this is something many parents are very concerned about when sending their kids to school. Of course, they want their kids to grow up with values accustomed to their own. Parents want their children to have good and stable moral and religious foundation. And they most specially don’t want their children to suffer discrimination due to different moral and religious stands the school, teachers, or other students may have.
- Freedom, Flexibility, And Savings – there are more benefits that homeschooled children enjoy like freedom from peer pressures, bullying, and other campus related problems kids and even teens encounter in schools. Homeschooled children can enjoy the luxury of studying in their pajamas; sleeping-in during the rainy days; having spontaneous activities like baking, camping, etc. Parents get to save from buying back-to-school clothes and accessories. The kids don’t have to be pressured in buying the latest fads in school just to fit in.
For those who are still looking for more reasons why go for homeschooling, here are more than 70 good reasons why homeschooling is NOT a bad idea. Here are some famous individuals who enjoyed all those benefits mentioned above.
Successful and Famous Homeschoolers
(Look where homeschooling has brought them.)
Politicians, Historical Figures, and Celebrities
Presidents
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln
William Henry Harrison
Theodore F. Roosevelt
Governors
Patrick Henry [VA]
Charles Pickney III [SC]
Richard D. Spaight [NC]
William Livingston [NJ]
Richard Bassett [DE]
U.S. Senators and Congressmen
William S. Johnson [CT]
George Clymer [PA]
John Francis Mercer [MD]
William Blout [TN]
William Few [GA]
Scientists/Businessmen
Blaise Pascal
Booker T. Washington
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Carnegie
John Stuart Mill
Athletes
Carly Patterson
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Composers
Anton Bruckner
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Francis Poulenc
Entertainers
Jonas Brothers
Hanson Brothers
Michelle Branch
Emile Hirsch
Lindsay Lohan
Jena Malone
Raven Symone
Elijah Wood
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Chief Justices of U.S. Supreme Court
John Rutledge
John Jay
John Marshall
College Presidents
John Witherspoon -- Yale
Timothy Dwight -- Princeton
William S. Johnson -- Columbia
Preachers / Missionaries
John & Charles Wesley
John Owen
Johnathon Edwards
William Carey
Dwight D. Moody
John Newton
Hudson Taylor
Authors
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
Irving Berlin
Charles Dickens
C.S. Lewis
Phillis Wheatley
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Philosopher
Charles Montesquieu
Artists
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Andrew Wyeth
John Singleton Copley
Rembrandt Peale
Claude Money
Ansel Adams
Famous Women
Abigail Adams
Mercy Warren
Martha Washington
Florence Nightingale
Phyllis Wheatley
Agatha Christie
Pearl S. Buck
Generals
"Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton |
Bet you are more enticed to go for homeschooling now, do you? After reading through all those names, perhaps you’ve just realized that one of them is someone that you’ve considered as a very inspiring person in your life, right?
Funny how people – well, in this case successful and famous people – could actually influence ones decisions in life. So when deciding on major turning points in yours or your children’s lives it is good to look around for information, which can guide you to the right way. But remember that everything still boils down to what you and your kids really want in life and to choose the path that could give you more benefits to whatever investment you put in.
Yes, education can be tedious, time consuming, expensive, and stressful – or NOT. Because if you know your options – or the right option – then it could be a lot of fun and excitement, and you can make schooling one of the best times of in life.
EDUCATION IS VERY IMPORTANT. How you experience it or how your kids will experience it can really depend on YOU.