But a life that is personified by disobedience has far less impact for righteousness in their children's lives than the life spent in submission and obedience to the Lord. These are the underlying reasons why we decided to homeschool. As parents, we can have more direct control of what facts they learn, how they learn them, and how they develop opinions regarding those facts. Instead of our days being fragmented by hours away from home and each other, we can spend those hours with each other, learning with each other, growing in wisdom and knowledge with each other, encouraging, exhorting and holding each other accountable. In presenting knowledge, we can also be assured our children are learning the moral and philosophical merits of that knowledge and how to use that knowledge in their lives.
Education is an ongoing process, meant to continue into all stages of life.
As the student is exposed to a wide variety of experiences, they have multiple opportunities to relate the facts in their posssession to their experiences. This generates a new awareness of the world around them and how they relate to it. This is something that shouldn't stop with adulthood, although it may diminish. From the many curriculums available on the homeschool market today, I have chosen the unit study approach. With this type of curriculum, it is easier to integrate all the lessons into a coherent whole, thus assuring greater retention by the student.