But it can be sustained as well. Much informal learning probably takes place through reading for pleasure, a major feature of home education. How it all coalesces into a mature knowledge of the culture is a mystery, but it undoubtedly does. In a sentence, informal learning is induction into the culture, including its intellectual elements, through opportunities provided by everyday living. It is learning through guided participation, a kind of absorption.
Parents use a very wide range of methods of teaching reading, even within the same family.
Their children learn to read from anything between three and eleven, even within the same family. On the contrary. As they see their children developing perfectly adequate social skills, they begin to question the value of social development in a school context. Moreover, home educators do not have to emulate school to be successful. There are a wide variety of methods used at home.