Think of more well-furnished minds, more creative thinking and more closely knit families. Home education, Dave Exley says, is not out to replace or topple the public school system, not out to produce a generation of social dissidents or religious fanatics or to turn parents into tyrants. Home teaching came from the American tradition. All four guys on Mount Rushmore were for the most part home schooled. The school system has major problems, and this is one way of addressing them, by making parents and families responsible.
Motives vary widely As a political movement, home education suffers from disparate spirits.
It brings together the far left, with its reputation for tolerance and social equity, and the far right, with its penchant for obedience to authority and hard-nosed competition. It combines free spirits who question assumptions and test limits and religious fundamentalists who decry a lack of moral teaching and lax discipline. In that mix, the moderate majority can feel caught in the middle. And the stay-home urge works against ANY affiliation. It also stirs old arguments.