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. The following are some of the advantages of home schooling and are among the reasons given by parents who've decided to home school.
Parents can give their children a Christian education.
The tutorial style of education where each child receives individual attention, allows the flexibility of being able to challenge the faster students of being able to stop and go over things again with the slower student to ensure that concepts are grasped. Parents have the time to character train and influence their children in a way that is integrated into their whole life and thus is a foundation for life. Parents have increased opportunity to transmit their values and beliefs to their children. Independant thinking and self-motivation is developed, especially in the later grades. Children have the time to explore intellectually and to think.