In other words, advances in medical technology actually were causing harm. A natural approach, one which is increasingly used today, is far better for everyone involved. Yet, the more natural approach to childbirth did not come without a fight from doctors and nurses. Indeed, there is the story, probably apocryphal, of the husband who handcuffed himself to his wife so that the doctors could not force him to wait outside. Now that is the kind of commitment that makes people think twice about their preconceived notions.
Home schooling is to education what natural childbirth is to delivery.
It is an attempt to reassert the natural order of things, it is an attempt to live life more fully by experiencing the things in life more fully. And, for the Catholic, it is an attempt more fully to live the vocation of parent. We are all children of God, heirs of heaven, and called to a royal priesthood. This is what we are, but we cannot be these things fully unless we cooperate with grace. It is this very sense of the family as the domestic church which has brought families back into the home to teach their own children.