I'm sure we've all encountered opposition to and concern about our choice to homeschool. The next tim e someone gives us grief, let's give them a few examples of people who were homeschooled...
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Many U.S. Presidents were home schooled, among them:
George Washington, 1st President, 16th
taught by his mother, father, and brother
John Quincy Adams, 2nd President
accompanied his father to France at 11
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, mother of John Quincy was taught by her clergyman father and in visits to her cultured grandparents who had an extensive library
James Madison, 4th
taught by his grandmother until age 12
Zachary Taylor, 12th
taught at home by a tutor
Millard Fillmore, 13th
attended school for short periods; studied the Bible and a hymn
book at home (those were the basic texts of that time)
James Buchanan, 15th
learned arithmetic and bookkeeping in his father’s store
Abraham Lincoln, 16th
taught by his stepmother
Andrew Johnson, 17th
apprenticed to a tailor, learned to read at 18
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th
taught by private tutor, at 19 was sent on the Grand Tour where
he learned a few languages
Woodrow Wilson, 28th
taught at home by his father in a home full of books, in the company of cultivated minds, until he entered college; didn’t learn to read until age 11 "What need was there to read when I could spend hours listening to others read aloud?"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd
taught at home by a governess
Other Founding Fathers
Benjamin Franklin
six months of schooling at age 8; worked in father’s candle shop
at 10, father taught him to love good books, at 16 his first essay was published
Alexander Hamilton, statesman, politician
taught by his mother and a clergyman, worked in a general store
from 12 – 16, then entered college
Patrick Henry, Revolutionary leader
informally taught reading, arithmetic, Latin, Greek ancient history by his father. "Give me Liberty or give me Death."
George Mason, Revolutionary statesman
taught by his mother, occasionally tutored, studied law from an uncle who had a library of 15000 volumes
Other Famous Homeschoolers
Ansel Adams, photographer
". . . had difficulty adjusting to traditional schools. His father decided to teach him at home, and the next years were extremely fruitful. Learning experiences were always tapped into the young boy's intrinsic interests and ranged from playing the piano to visiting an exposition. Years later, after he had become internationally known for his creative photography, Adams paid tribute to the courage of a father who was willing to take risks, to listen to that "different drummer" unique to each child. In his autobiography, Adams wrote: 'I am certain he established the positive direction of my life that otherwise, given my native hyperactivity, could have been confused and catastrophic. I trace who I am and the direction of my development to those years of growing up in our house on the dunes, propelled especially by an internal spark tenderly kept alive and glowing by my father.'"
- Reader's Digest
Louisa May Alcott, author Little Women
educated by her father
Susan B. Anthony, women’s rights leader
home schooled by her father
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
no interest in formal studies; taught by his talented mother
William Jennings Bryan, orator, statesman
until age 10, taught my his mother who stood him on a small
table to recite his lessons
Pearl Buck, author, Nobel & Pulitzer prizes
taught by her mother until she started formal school at 17
William F. Buckley, political columnists
taught at home by parents and tutors, father taught him politics
at the dinner table
Andrew Carnegie, steel manufacturer
Refused to go to school at age five so his parents kept him home. An uncle read
to him out loud. After three years he went to school, but quit a 13, later to
become one of the world’s richest men.
Charles Dickens, author, A Christmas Carol
couldn’t afford school; "passions for reading were awakened by his mother" who
also taught him English and later, Latin
Thomas Edison, inventor of light bulb, phonograph
When the teacher called him "addled," Edison’s mother told him that her son had "more sense in his little finger than you have in your entire body." She took him out of school and taught him herself, making learning fun for him. She bought him books of experiments; then he went off on his own.
Robert Frost, poet, Pulitzer prize winner
disliked school so much he became physically ill; what schoolwork
he did was done at home until he passed the entrance exams
and entered high school.
General Douglas MacArthur, WWII and Korean War
taught by his mother until 13, then tutored; entered West Point with highest entrance
exams ever reported
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
"Some years we went to school. Other years we stayed at home and Grandma taught us."
"On some days she gave me a set of plants to analyze; on others, she gave me a description and sent me out to the woods and meadows to collect examples, say, of the 'mint family.'
"She taught me to read for the sense of what I read and to enjoy learning." "Grandma . . . . seldom took more than an hour a day and left me . . . much time on my hands while other children were in school."
One of Margaret's oldest friends told her in later years, "In my house I was a child. In your house I was a person."
- Larry M. Arnoldsen, "On Human Learning," UHEA Newsletter, April 1991
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author, Little House on the Prairie
------<taken from http://groups.msn.com/CollegeAdmissi...schoolers.msnw>
Many U.S. Presidents were home schooled, among them:
George Washington, 1st President, 16th
taught by his mother, father, and brother
John Quincy Adams, 2nd President
accompanied his father to France at 11
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, mother of John Quincy was taught by her clergyman father and in visits to her cultured grandparents who had an extensive library
James Madison, 4th
taught by his grandmother until age 12
Zachary Taylor, 12th
taught at home by a tutor
Millard Fillmore, 13th
attended school for short periods; studied the Bible and a hymn
book at home (those were the basic texts of that time)
James Buchanan, 15th
learned arithmetic and bookkeeping in his father’s store
Abraham Lincoln, 16th
taught by his stepmother
Andrew Johnson, 17th
apprenticed to a tailor, learned to read at 18
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th
taught by private tutor, at 19 was sent on the Grand Tour where
he learned a few languages
Woodrow Wilson, 28th
taught at home by his father in a home full of books, in the company of cultivated minds, until he entered college; didn’t learn to read until age 11 "What need was there to read when I could spend hours listening to others read aloud?"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd
taught at home by a governess
Other Founding Fathers
Benjamin Franklin
six months of schooling at age 8; worked in father’s candle shop
at 10, father taught him to love good books, at 16 his first essay was published
Alexander Hamilton, statesman, politician
taught by his mother and a clergyman, worked in a general store
from 12 – 16, then entered college
Patrick Henry, Revolutionary leader
informally taught reading, arithmetic, Latin, Greek ancient history by his father. "Give me Liberty or give me Death."
George Mason, Revolutionary statesman
taught by his mother, occasionally tutored, studied law from an uncle who had a library of 15000 volumes
Other Famous Homeschoolers
Ansel Adams, photographer
". . . had difficulty adjusting to traditional schools. His father decided to teach him at home, and the next years were extremely fruitful. Learning experiences were always tapped into the young boy's intrinsic interests and ranged from playing the piano to visiting an exposition. Years later, after he had become internationally known for his creative photography, Adams paid tribute to the courage of a father who was willing to take risks, to listen to that "different drummer" unique to each child. In his autobiography, Adams wrote: 'I am certain he established the positive direction of my life that otherwise, given my native hyperactivity, could have been confused and catastrophic. I trace who I am and the direction of my development to those years of growing up in our house on the dunes, propelled especially by an internal spark tenderly kept alive and glowing by my father.'"
- Reader's Digest
Louisa May Alcott, author Little Women
educated by her father
Susan B. Anthony, women’s rights leader
home schooled by her father
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
no interest in formal studies; taught by his talented mother
William Jennings Bryan, orator, statesman
until age 10, taught my his mother who stood him on a small
table to recite his lessons
Pearl Buck, author, Nobel & Pulitzer prizes
taught by her mother until she started formal school at 17
William F. Buckley, political columnists
taught at home by parents and tutors, father taught him politics
at the dinner table
Andrew Carnegie, steel manufacturer
Refused to go to school at age five so his parents kept him home. An uncle read
to him out loud. After three years he went to school, but quit a 13, later to
become one of the world’s richest men.
Charles Dickens, author, A Christmas Carol
couldn’t afford school; "passions for reading were awakened by his mother" who
also taught him English and later, Latin
Thomas Edison, inventor of light bulb, phonograph
When the teacher called him "addled," Edison’s mother told him that her son had "more sense in his little finger than you have in your entire body." She took him out of school and taught him herself, making learning fun for him. She bought him books of experiments; then he went off on his own.
Robert Frost, poet, Pulitzer prize winner
disliked school so much he became physically ill; what schoolwork
he did was done at home until he passed the entrance exams
and entered high school.
General Douglas MacArthur, WWII and Korean War
taught by his mother until 13, then tutored; entered West Point with highest entrance
exams ever reported
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
"Some years we went to school. Other years we stayed at home and Grandma taught us."
"On some days she gave me a set of plants to analyze; on others, she gave me a description and sent me out to the woods and meadows to collect examples, say, of the 'mint family.'
"She taught me to read for the sense of what I read and to enjoy learning." "Grandma . . . . seldom took more than an hour a day and left me . . . much time on my hands while other children were in school."
One of Margaret's oldest friends told her in later years, "In my house I was a child. In your house I was a person."
- Larry M. Arnoldsen, "On Human Learning," UHEA Newsletter, April 1991
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author, Little House on the Prairie
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