Famous Homeschoolers

Famous homeschoolers...what will YOUR child be?

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[MillerHomeSchoolOK]

As for homeschooling being conservative or liberal, the truth is that there are many families on both ends of the spectrum who homeschool. In fact, the number of liberal-minded parents choosing to bring their children home and educate them is growing rapidly. They may not have the same religious reasoning as conservatives, but even they can see that the American public school system is a massive failure.

[MillerHomeSchoolOK]

So, while Einstein did attend some school in his life, he was mostly self-taught and certainly home-educated, having a great disdain for the schools method of teaching. If all Einstein ever learned in his growing years was the teaching put before him in school, he would have been poorly educated indeed.

[MillerHomeSchoolOK]

Uncle Jakob lent him a book of algebra and sent him math puzzles to solve. Albert's parents purchased his textbooks in advance so that he could read them over summer vacation. At age 12 he taught himself Euclidian geometry (the study of points, lines, and surfaces), having been greatly impressed by its clear and certain proofs. By the age of 15, Albert had mastered differential and integral calculus (a higher form of mathematics used to solve problems in physics and engineering).

[MillerHomeSchoolOK]

The Encyclopedia Britannica states that Einstein was 15 years old when he left school "with poor grades in history, geography, and languages." Although uninterested in other subjects, Albert had an innate ability ot understand complicated mathematical concepts by learning them through indepedent study. He had settled into his own program of self-education by age 10, in which his real studies were done at home.

[MillerHomeSchoolOK]

He wrote that the spirit of discovery and creative thought were lost in strict rote learning. Biographer Albrecht Folsing, author of Albert Einstein: A Biography (New York: Viking, 1997), described him as an exceptionally bright, self-motivated learner who could get good scores when he wanted to, but refused to waste his time with school activities in which he saw little value.

[MillerHomeSchoolOK]

Despite his natural inquisitiveness, Albert Einstein was unhappy in school. According to a story that he later told his son Hans Albert, "his teachers reported that...he was mentally slow, unsociable, and adrfit forever in his foolish dreams." Einstein attributed his school problems to a disdain for compulsion, a tendency to do things his own way, and an unwillingness to do the work required by his teachers.

[bibliosca]

as a father of 9 Christian homeschooled in england, i believe my children are happier, [ due to less stress, pressure, and thier ability to use thier toys,equipment,home environement to the full.where one was a little slow,at least he was not put in with disuptive pupils like state school does, and he with patience has succeeded.they have high iq with richmond test [ voluntary test in uk ].all 9 are taught faith in Jesus as the only way to heaven, andthe bible, rightly divided, as our guide

[ruthness95]

And if you actually know who most of these people are, you're probably homeschooled. LOL

[pigeonpsycho]

fuck letting government educate kids, what is this soviet russia

[hsehomeschooling]

Teaching any learner how to learn is essential for success!

[nazacuckoo98]

@captinseperoth

Sort of like you not being able to spell "home" properly?

[kassklothes]

@MillerHomeSchoolOK - I, too, homeschool my children, and the amount of liberals that homeschool their children in miniscule. The amount of people that homeschool for reasons other than religion is growing by leaps and bounds, but the liberal folks that homeschool is still quite small.

[kassklothes]

Frederick Terman was not a President of Stanford University, he was a Provost. I find it surprising that Tim Tebow wasn't on the list. I'd think he'd be on there as one of the more well-known modern-day homeschoolers.

Although I'm proud of our homeschoolers, we need to get the information correct.

[mightymomto1]

@majohnse Self-education is one of many methods of homeschooling. Some call this type of home education child led or child directed learning. Others may call it unschooling. There are as many ways to homeschool as there are families so it can not be defined in one narrow description. My daughter is self-educated but when people ask her where she goes to school she does not respond by saying that she is self-educated. She says she is homeschooled.

[PaBBM123Productions]

This is my 5th yr of homeschooling.

[momu1971]

This is a great video .(9year old homeschooler).

[sk8pn]

@MillerHomeSchoolOK you forgot nikola tesla the man who invented the 20th centuray(he created ac current,hydroelectricity,xray,­remote control,improved on the light buhad 700 patent by the time he died) was home schooled