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