Who is A Homeschool Family?

Parents and families are the first and most important teachers. If families teach a love of learning, it can make all the difference in the world to our children. - Richard W. Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education

..the truth is mothers - and fathers - exert far more influence over their children's intellectual development than is commonly realised. In fact, more than three decades of research shows that families have greater influence over a child's academic performance than any other factor - including schools. - Family Research Council, The One-House Schoolroom (Sept 1995 issue of Family Policy)

For thousands of years, in thousands of places, families educated their own. This tradition changed not because a better method was found but because economic conditions required it. To work one had to leave one's children; one's children, furthermore, had to be trained for tasks no-one in their purview could be seen doing. For these reasons institutionalised schooling was invented' and while it adequately addressed a set of economic problems it inspired a new set of human ones that are psychological, emotional, and even spiritual in nature. - David Guterson 'Family Matters - Why Homeschooling Makes Sense'

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