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Article #441: The History Of Home Schooling

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Home schooling is also known as home had on the mental, and, physical
education, and is a method of teaching development of children between the ages
children in the family home, rather than of 8 to 12 years of age. Through these
at an institution, such as a public studies, the Moores produced evidence
school. Originally, all schooling was that formal schooling was damaging to
done in the family home, or informally children, and a cause for some behavioral
within small communities. Very few problems commonly found in school aged
children ever went to school, or had children.
private tutelage. Children who did have According to these tests, illiterate
this type of education were considered to tribal mothers in Africa had children
be privileged, and were mainly from that were more socially, and emotionally
wealthy families. advanced than children in the western
Informal education, mainly conducted in world. The Moores believed that this was
the home, was the only way for children largely due to the bond between parents,
to gain an education. In the US, there and their children being broken when
were books dedicated to home education, children were institutionalized in
such as "Helps To Education in the Homes schooling systems.
of Our Country" authored by Warren In some English speaking countries, it is
Burton. Parents were the main teachers of still an option for parents to home
their children, although, where possible, school their children rather than to send
local teachers would assist parents, and them to an institutionalized school.
take classes. It is said that before There are a wide variety of home
schooling was institutionalized, the US schooling methods available to families
was at its height of literacy skills. who choose to home school their children,
The 19th century saw many significant rather than send them to schools,
changes to the way education, and including methods such as classical
schooling was conducted with the education, Waldorf education, and the
introduction of compulsory school Montessori method.
attendance laws. It is now considered a Home schooling can also refer to
human right that children are given an schooling done in a home environment,
education provided by the government. with supervision by teachers through
Over the years, there has been much correspondence schools. While children
controversy over the effectiveness of are schooled at home, they must still
institutionalized schooling, and some complete compulsory educational subjects,
people have even gone as far as saying and take tests.
that the compulsory schooling system is One of the main reasons that parents
damaging to younger children, especially choose to home school their children is
boys who are slower to mature. that they feel the schools are unable to
In the early 1970s, Ray and Dorothy offer their children the same quality of
Moore, who later become well known home education, or social environment that can
schooling advocates, researched the be taught at home.
bearing that early childhood education






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