Home school your children. It works.
1. Agatha Christie. Agatha was a painfully shy girl, so her mom homeschooled her even though her two older siblings attended private school.
2. Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia, but herfamily moved to China when she was just three months old. She washomeschooled by a Confucian scholar and learned English as a secondlanguage from her mom.
3. Alexander Graham Bell was homeschooled by hismother until he was about 10. It was at this point that she started togo deaf and didn’t feel she could properly educate him any more. Herdeafness inspired Bell to study acoustics and sound later in life.
4. If Thomas Edison was aroundtoday, he would probably be diagnosed with ADD – he left public schoolafter only three months because his mind wouldn’t stop wandering. His mom homeschooled him after that, and he credited her with thesuccess of his education: “My mother was the making of me. She was sotrue, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone Imust not disappoint.”
5. Ansel Adams was homeschooled at the age of 12after his “wild laughter and undisguised contempt for the ineptramblings of his teachers” disrupted the classroom. His father took onhis education from that point forward.
6. Robert Frost hated school so much he would get physically ill at the thought of going. He was homeschooled until his high school years.
7. Woodrow Wilson studied under his dad, one of thefounders of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States(PCUS). He didn’t learn to read until he was about 12. He took a fewclasses at a school in Augusta, Georgia, to supplement his father’steachings, and ended up spending a year at Davidson College beforetransferring to Princeton.
8. Mozart was educated by his dad as the Mozart family toured Europe from 1763-1766.
9. Laura Ingalls Wilder was homeschooled until herparents finally settled in De Smet in what was then Dakota Territory.She started teaching school herself when she was only 15 years old.
10. Louisa May Alcott studied mostly with her dad,but had a few lessons from family friends Henry David Thoreau, RalphWaldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Can you imagine?