| Do you know what do many U.S. presidents have | | | | who get higher grades at exams than the |
| in common except for the fact that they've lived | | | | majority of their peers who attended public |
| in the White House and they had a family dog? | | | | schools. |
| They were homeschooled. Presidents like John | | | | The modern educational system, with children |
| Adams, James Garfield, William Henry Harrison, | | | | gathered together in schools appeared out of |
| Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, Abraham | | | | convenience, because parents needed to work in |
| Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison or | | | | order to be able to support the family, therefore |
| Theodore Roosevelt received home school | | | | there was nobody left to educate the children. It |
| education in their childhood. | | | | is not better but more convenient, that's why it |
| While this doesn't prove homeschooling is a | | | | gained such a momentum as to become the rule |
| system that works for everybody, at least it | | | | in the modern society. Homeschooling requires a |
| shows that children who are educated at home | | | | big portion of the parent's time, and this is why it |
| are not lost for the society. If all those children | | | | is rare, because today's world is running short on |
| were able to develop in such personalities | | | | time. |
| recognized and respected by millions of people, | | | | The fact that there are so many notable persons |
| how can we reject this alternative educational | | | | that received home education, as well as many |
| method as being totally wrong? | | | | other notabilities that went to public schools |
| Conservative minds will try to argue by stating | | | | proves that great minds can and will develop and |
| that homeschooling was rather the mainstream | | | | grow regardless the environment or the teaching |
| by the time those famous people lived their | | | | system they've passed through. Children are |
| childhood. Indeed, there was a time in history | | | | flexible and they will adapt and develop their skills, |
| when homeschooling was a common practice in | | | | regardless how carefully you may select their |
| rural areas of the United States. | | | | homeschooling curriculum or how poor your |
| So, if something ceased being the rule, this turns | | | | teaching skills may be. If they want to learn |
| it automatically into a dysfunctional system that | | | | something, they will. If not, then you have a real |
| should be stoned and eliminated from the modern | | | | problem, no matter what educational system you |
| society, despite the fact that it is showing | | | | choose as a responsible and caring parent. |
| excellent results? There are many homeschoolers | | | | |