Larry Shyers used to be against homeschooling and set out to prove it was bad for kids. He now is an advocate for Home schooling because of his studies.

Can’t help you on the con side – my experience with home education has been incredibly positive. 3 homeschool graduates – all in college and/or have degree – rest still in homeschool. Don’t let anybody tell you that homeschoolers are not socialized properly – (which seems to be the most popular argument against) I can go to any fast food restaurant and find public schooled kids who can’t carry on a conversation with an adult. Children need to taught social skills from an adult, not another child. Parents are the key to any child’s education – parents are responsible (before God) – whether they homeschool, public or private school. The “buck stops” with parents. Sorry – I’m babbling on . . . check out the website – it will give you plenty of fodder!!

I: Social Aspect

A: Child

1: Psycological Aspect

2: Emotional Aspect

B: Teenager

1: Psycological Aspect

2: Emotional Aspect

II: Educational Aspect

A: Time Schedule

B: Learning Enviroment

III: Differences with Public School and Private School…. so on and so forth

True socialization with all age groups as you interact with life. No where else in life will we be grouped with people all our same age, and move from place to place by the sound of a bell.

here are some quotes and other information

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

-Albert Einstein

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

-Albert Einstein

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

-Albert Einstein

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

Henry David Thoreau

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child”-

George Bernard Shaw.

“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”

-Ignacio Estrada

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

-Beatrix Potter

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

-Sir Walter Scott

“What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t a school at all.”

–John Holt

“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.”

— Chinese Proverb

“Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight — unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors– I shall help give him the key.” –Anonymous

“Education comes from living life, following passions, accessing information, observing, reflecting, and being inspired by wise and courageous elders in the community.”

– Claire Aumonier

“My grandmother wanted me to get an education, so she kept me out of school.”

-Margaret Mead

“In general the best teacher or care-giver cannot match a parent of even ordinary education and experience.”

-Dr. Raymond Moore

“You may be interested to know that Eragon would not exist if I had attended public school. Homeschooling gave me the opportunity to pursue my interests, time to dream, and time to write….”

“And I had freedoms the majority of today’s teens don’t have. I didn’t have to contend with peer pressure to conform to social fads. I could be myself. Without the frantic schedule kept by many teens, I had time to think, to daydream about adventures, to create the world of Algaesia”

-Christopher Paolini

Homeschoolers you may know!!!

Writers

Hans Christian Anderson

Margaret Atwood

Pearl S. Buck

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Agatha Christie

Samuel Clemens –

(Mark Twain)

Charles Dickens

Robert Frost

Alex Haley

Brett Harte

C.S. Lewis

Doris Lessing

Christopher Paolini – author of Eragon

Beatrix Potter

Carl Sandburg

George Bernard Shaw

Mattie J. T. Stepanek – author of Heartsongs

Mercy Warren

Phillis Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Presidents

• John Adams

• John Quincy Adams

• Grover Cleveland

• James Garfield

• William Harrison

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Madison

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• John Tyler

• George Washington

• Woodrow Wilson

Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell – invented the telephone

John Browning – firearms inventor and designer

Peter Cooper – invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive

Thomas Edison – stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, light bulb

Benjamin Franklin – invented the lightning rod

Elias Howe – invented sewing machine

William Lear – airplane creator

Cyrus McCormick – invented grain reaper

Guglielmo Marconi – developed radio

Sir Frank Whittle – invented turbo jet engine

Orville and Wilbur Wright – built the first successful airplane

Source(s):

Washington Homeschool Organization 2006 Convention Program. It’s not online anymore, but I still have a copy.