Home schooling is an age-old method of education where parents teach their children at home.
Transitional home schooling, where the understanding is that in the early yearsthe child will be taught at home and will later make the transition to formal school. Supplemental home schooling, where the child does go to formal school but the parents believe that more or different instruction is also needed and so they teach the child evenings and weekends. At least ten American presidents were home schooled, among them George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt. Lady of the Lamp, Florence Nightingale and the famous American millitary men, Douglas MacArthur and George Patton. Also home schooled were the authors Mark Twain, Phyllis Wheatley, Charles Dickens and George Bernard Shaw.