Posts Tagged ‘history of homeschooling’
Homeschooling Blog Carnival Includes Homeschooling History
Not only do you get great reading with this week's Homeschooling Blog Carnival at The Common Room. Deputy Headmistress does a terrific job weaving together this week's Carnival submissions with a nice overview of how homeschooling got to where it is today. I'm a firm believer that to understand homeschooling you should know its history, and this [...]
A Brief History of American Homeschooling
Many regard homeschooling as a new educational phenomenon, but that is simply a reflection of the bias of our times. If somehow we could help our caveman see into the future, he would regard government-sponsored schools as the variant, as would the majority of his descendants at least until the middle of the nineteenth century. Until then, the [...]
