MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 hour ago, LogicIsForSquares said: Homeschool facts from the company making money from homeschooling. It's amazing when they just can't put two and two together, huh? You learn how to write research papers in public school. And your bibliography is more than just THE BIBLE and Mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 12 minutes ago, Gorka said: The "Top 10" homeschooled: Jennifer Love Hewitt. ... Doctor Condoleeza Rice. ... C. S. ... Erwin Schrodinger. ... Tim Tebow. ... Frank Lloyd Wright. ... Margaret Atwood. ... Whoopi Goldberg. From the past to the present: (at first glance #54 looked like Charles Manson was home schooled lol) 1. James Madison 2. George Washington 3. Woodrow Wilson 4. Andrew Jackson 5. James Garfield 6. John Adams 7. John Quincy Adams 8. Grover Cleveland 9. William Henry Harrison 10. Thomas Jefferson 11. Andrew Johnson 12. Abraham Lincoln 13. James Monroe 14. James Polk 15. Franklin D. Roosevelt 16. Theodore Roosevelt 17. John Tyler 18. Leonardo da Vinci 19. Charles Peale 20. Andrew Wyeth 21. Claude Monet 22. Grandma Moses 23. Alexander Graham Bell 24. Thomas Edison 25. Eli Whitney 26. Orville and Wilbur Wright 27. George Patton 28. Douglas MacArthur 29. Robert E. Lee 30. Stonewall Jackson 31. Agatha Christie 32. Charles Dickens 33. Robert Frost 34. C.S. Lewis 35. Beatrix Potter 36. Louis Armstrong 37. Taylor Swift 38. Whoopi Goldberg 39. Charlie Chaplin 40. Benjamin Franklin 41. Ansel Adams 42. Margaret Mead 43. Albert Schweitzer 44. Frank Lloyd Wright 45. Sandra Day O’Connor 46. Winston Churchill 47. George Washington Carver 48. Albert Einstein 49. Elias Howe 50. Joan of Arc 51. Bethany Hamilton 52. The Bates Family 53. Sage Kotsenburg 54. Charlotte Mason 55. Michelle Kwan 56. Tim Tebow 57. Venus and Serena Williams 58. Amelia Earhart 59. Susan B. Anthony 60. Gloria Steinem 61. Abby and Zac Sunderland 62. Joseph Pulitzer 63. Condoleezza Rice 64. Colonel Harland Sanders 65. Louisa May Alcott 66. Jane Austen 67. Mark Twain 68. Robert Browning 69. Helen Keller 70. Clara Barton 71. Christopher Paolini 72. Carl Sandburg 73. George Bernard Shaw 74. John Philip Sousa 75. Hans Christian Andersen 76. Margaret Atwood 77. Irving Berlin 78. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 79. Laura Ingalls Wilder 80. LeAnne Rimes 81. Andrew Carnegie 82. Davy Crockett 83. John Burroughs 84. Robert Louis Stevenson 85. Walt Whitman 86. Isaac Newton 87. Florence Nightingale 88. Pearl S. Buck 89. Alyssa, Lauren, and Rebecca Barlow (BarlowGirl) 90. Justin Timberlake 91. Selena Gomez 92. The Jonas Brothers 93. Booker T. Washington 94. Jennifer Love Hewitt 95. Dakota Fanning 96. Ryan Gosling 97. Patrick Henry 98. Abigail Adams 99. Noah Webster 100. Sir Ernest Shackleton Time to put it to rest assholes. Child actors whose careers probably didn't let them go to public school and historical figures that probably didn't even have access to a public schooling system. Well I'm convinced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 hour ago, LogicIsForSquares said: That is the problem at the end. They may be mostly exposed to kids who are exactly like them and then they are shocked when not everyone drinks milk and talks bible study their freshman year of college. To think there are other kids out there that aren't middle to upper middle class Christian white kids. Crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 47 minutes ago, MLD Woody said: To think there are other kids out there that aren't middle to upper middle class Christian white kids. Crazy I just wish you weren't so ignorant - you should have been home schooled maybe. You can't constructively contribute to any conversation. I'd bet home schooled kids learned American history - they put you to shame right there. and I know a lot of homeschooled kids who have made it outstandingly in life. you, nope. In your beak, fake science birdbrain: https://www.famousscientists.org/great-scientists-homeschooled/ 13 Great Scientists Who Were Home-schooled By The Doc Here are some of the greatest scientists in history who were home-schooled. John Eccles 1903 – 1997. John Eccles was home-schooled to age 12 by his mother, a former schoolteacher. A neurophysiologist, he won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology of synapses, discovering how nerve cells communicate with one another. Sophie Germain 1776 – 1831. Sophie Germain never went to school. From age 13, she taught herself advanced mathematics. Sophie’s parents were unhappy about her obsession with mathematics. They denied her heat and light in her room. One winter morning they found her asleep, huddled under a blanket with a mathematics book in front of her, a burned-out candle from a hidden cache beside her, and her inkwell frozen by the intense cold. At this point they surrendered. Sophie Germain’s theory of surface vibrations brought her the prestigious Paris Academy of Sciences Prize in 1816, the first ever won by a woman. She made significant progress on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. Ambrose Fleming 1849 – 1945. Ambrose Fleming was educated by his mother to age 10, learning to read seated on her knees. At age 11, he built model steam engines and boats. He constructed a camera from a cigar box, becoming a skilled photographer, making his own photographic plates from collodion and silver nitrate. He developed his own photos using potassium cyanide. Fleming founded the electronic age with his invention of the vacuum tube (thermionic valve). He also devised the hand rules for electric motors and generators. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691. Born into a wealthy family, in his infancy Robert Boyle was sent to live with a poor family to toughen him up. When he returned home, he was tutored in French and Latin. At age eight, he was sent to boarding school for three years. After this he had no formal education, but on a Grand Tour of Europe he learned how Galileo had used mathematics to explain motion. As an adult, Robert Boyle transformed chemistry from a field mired in alchemy and mysticism into one based on measurement. He defined elements, compounds, and mixtures, and he discovered Boyle’s Law – the first gas law. Florence Nightingale 1820 – 1910. Florence Nightingale was home-schooled by her father to an extremely high standard, reproducing his own education at the University of Cambridge, including French, German, Italian, Greek, Latin, Philosophy, and Mathematics. Florence was a polymath with exceptional skills. She transformed nursing into a respected, highly trained profession; used statistics to analyze wider health outcomes; and advocated sanitary reforms largely credited with adding 20 years to life expectancy between 1871 and 1935. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836. André-Marie Ampère’s father followed Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s approach to education, which meant no school and no formal lessons. The young Ampère could do as he pleased and was encouraged to read anything he liked from his father’s large library. He chose to teach himself advanced mathematics. In later life he made the revolutionary discovery that a wire carrying electric current can magnetically attract or repel another wire next to it that’s also carrying electric current. He also formulated Ampere’s Law of electromagnetism. Ada Lovelace 1815 – 1852. Ada Lovelace was taught at home by private tutors. She cooperated with Charles Babbage in writing the world’s first computer program and broke new ground when she realized a computer could go beyond numbers to carry out other operations, such as composing music. Bernhard Riemann 1826 – 1866. Home-schooled to age 13 mainly by his father, Bernhard Riemann’s parents believed the most important thing they could give their children was a solid education. His father enlisted a local teacher to teach 10-year-old Bernhard arithmetic and geometry, but soon Bernhard was teaching his teacher! Bernhard Riemann transformed geometry and provided the foundation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The Riemann hypothesis has become the most famous unresolved problem in mathematics. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662. Blaise Pascal was home-schooled by his father, who was a lawyer and first-rate mathematician. By age 16, Blaise was writing mathematical treatises of such sophistication that René Descartes incorrectly believed they were the boy’s father’s work. Blaise Pascal invented the hydraulic press and the mechanical calculator, devised Pascal’s triangle for the binomial coefficients, and co-founded probability theory. Pascal’s wager is his justification for believing in God. Carolus Linnaeus 1707 – 1778. Carolus Linnaeus was home-schooled to age 10. He picked up his father’s great love of Nature, and learned to speak Latin before he started walking. He devised the formal two-part naming system, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Homo sapiens, we use to classify all lifeforms. He named about 13,000 lifeforms and classified them into categories such as mammals, birds, fish, primates, canines, etc, and invented index cards as a means of keeping records of species. Irène Joliot-Curie 1897 – 1956. Irène was the daughter of Marie Curie. Irène’s mother grew increasingly disenchanted with schools in Paris, and she formed a school with other academics. Irène and nine other children were taught physics by Marie Curie, chemistry by Jean Baptiste Perrin (who later won a Nobel Prize in physics), and mathematics by the great physicist Paul Langevin. There was only one class a day, then the children worked on their own. As an adult Irène Joliot-Curie discovered how to synthesize ‘designer’ radioactive elements in the laboratory, winning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Hans Christian Oersted 1777 – 1851. Hans Christian Oersted and his younger brother Anders were educated through a combination of home schooling and private tutors. Anders later became Prime Minister of Denmark. At age 12, helping in his father’s pharmacy, Hans became interested in chemistry. He began a new scientific epoch when he discovered that electricity and magnetism are linked, showing that an electric current flowing through a wire could move a nearby magnet. James Joule 1818 – 1889. James Joule’s childhood health was delicate, and he was mostly home-schooled. Later he was tutored in arithmetic and geometry by John Dalton. Joule discovered that heat and mechanical work are interconvertible, leading to the law of conservation of energy. The SI unit of energy, the joule, is named for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Did you read any of those or did you just blindly copy and paste? Who am I kidding I know exactly what you did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 How about this, I'll make an exception. I'm not against homeschooling if your teachers are Marie Curie, Jean Baptiste Perrin, and Paul Langevin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, MLD Woody said: Did you read any of those or did you just blindly copy and paste? Who am I kidding I know exactly what you did I read every one of them. And each one makes you look more and more like a nittwitbird woodpecker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 3 hours ago, LogicIsForSquares said: Homeschool facts from the company making money from homeschooling. I can't hardly believe it.... Gorka may think it's been around for a long time- but in reality, it's a very recent phenomenon, taking off in the last 20 or so years. It certainly was unheard of back in the '60s. I suppose we can go back to the 1700s, but why stop there? Let's dial it all the way back 2,000 years to the time of Plato and Aristotle. St. Paul was home schooled by Gamaliel. AND the #1 reason cited for home schooling with a bullet is- either the parents don't like the public school system (can't blame them there) or they don't have the funds to send their kids to a private school where they would get a high quality education. 2 hours ago, MLD Woody said: Child actors whose careers probably didn't let them go to public school and historical figures that probably didn't even have access to a public schooling system. Well I'm convinced Ditto Woody. And from my tennis background- I can pretty confidently say the Williams sisters didn't have any stinkin' time for school. Out there on the court 6-8 hours every day with dad, and then lots of travel to the top junior tournaments. Same for any childhood prodigy athlete. Artists or composers? You either have the talent, or you don't. The student far exceeded the teacher in every respect. Now Leonardo- this Mona Lisa- it's not quite right, remember what I showed you about painting? Advanced symphonic composition isn't on the home school list of activities to my knowledge.... Yes Cal there are a few- very few- beyond MENSA geniuses in history- who essentially could teach themselves- because there didn't happen to be anyone around smarter than they were at the time. IIRC, Einstein's teachers thought he wasn't very intelligent- because he was operating on an entirely different mental plane than they were. The analogy I saw was the theoretical physicists of the time saw the fingernail on one finger- Einstein OTOH could see they whole hand. Education is a tool- all depends on how you use it. But every home schooled kid doesn't have a teacher like Florence Nightingale did either... And just because you were home schooled doesn't mean you're going to turn out a brilliant physicist like Blaise Pascal- you need the mental raw material Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 well, then there's a repeat of non-scientists: https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-successful-homeschooled-people.php https://newswithviews.com/our-lucky-founding-fathers-they-were-home-schooled/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 but WAIT ! THERE ARE MORE ! http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/famous-homeschoolers.html Famous Homeschoolers The following list of famous homeschoolers includes artists, athletes, authors, businessmen, composers, entertainers, explorers, inventors, military leaders, photographers, presidents, religious leaders, scientists, statesman, U.S. Supreme Court Judges, and women who were homeschooled at some point of their eduction. At the end is a list of famous parents who are homeschooling their children. Artists Claude Monet Grandma Moses Leonardo da Vinci Rembrandt Peale(return to top) Athletes Michelle Kwan Jason Taylor Tim Tebow Serena Williams Venus Williams(return to top) Authors Agatha Christie Alex Haley Beatrix Potter C.S. Lewis Charles Dickens George Bernard Shaw Hans Christian Anderson Louisa May Alcott Margaret Atwood Mark Twain Phillis Wheatley Pearl S. Buck Robert Frost Virginia Woolf(return to top) Businessmen Andrew Carnegie Colonel Harland Sanders Dave Thomas Joseph Pulitzer Ray Kroc(return to top) Composers Felix Mendelssohn Irving Berlin John Philip Sousa Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(return to top) Entertainers Alan Alda Charlie Chaplin Christina Aguilera Dakota Fanning Hanson Hillary Duff Jennifer Love Hewitt Justin Timberlake LeAnne Rimes Louis Armstrong Whoopi Goldberg(return to top) Explorers Davy Crockett George Rogers Clark(return to top) Inventors Alexander Graham Bell Benjamin Franklin Cyrus McCormick Eli Whitney Thomas Edison Orville Wright Wilbur Wright(return to top) Military Leaders Douglas MacArthur George Patton John Paul Jones Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson Matthew Perry(return to top) Photographers Ansel Adams(return to top) Presidents Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson Franklin Delano Roosevelt George Washington Grover Cleveland James Garfield James Madison John Adams John Quincy Adams John Tyler Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson William Henry Harrison Woodrow Wilson(return to top) Religious Leaders Brigham Young Dwight L. Moody Joan of Arc John & Charles Wesley William Carey(return to top) Scientists Albert Einstein Blaise Pascal Booker T. Washington George Washington Carver Pierre Curie(return to top) Statesman Alexander Hamilton Daniel Webster Patrick Henry William Jennings Bryan William Penn Winston Churchill(return to top) United States Supreme Court Judges John Jay John Marshall John Rutledge Sandra Day O'Connor(return to top) Women Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams Clara Barton, started the red cross Florence Nightingale, nurse Martha Washington, wife of George Washington Susan B. Anthony, women's rights leader(return to top) Famous Homeschooling Parents Lisa Whelchel Kelley Preston and John Travolta Will and Jada Pinkett Smith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 But, but, MAGA!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 The elitism exhibited by the so called progressives in this thread is priceless.. They know what's right for all.. Just ask them.. Hell, ya don't even have to ask them.. They'll still tell ya 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorka Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Axe said: The elitism exhibited by the so called progressives in this thread is priceless.. The deflection, spin, twists, and turns going on around here is out of control. It's come down to Woody attacking Cals copy and paste. You prove to them that homeschool kids are not autistic weirdos from nutty home instruction, that do function in society, but it seems they aint taking kindly to being told they're wrong. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 52 minutes ago, Gorka said: The deflection, spin, twists, and turns going on around here is astonishing. And why would that be? I already know the answer. Coming from one of the resident experts in that regard.... Yup- a lot (probably most) of those folks would have been successful if they had been home schooled or not. To a degree, you're cherry picking the cream of the crop. They don't hand out advanced degrees for creativity or ingenuity. How many people take courses in creative writing and never get published? Or pick up a trombone and aren't Louis Armstrong. Damn- no one taught me guitar- learned on my own, so why can't I play better than Jimi Hendrix? Pick up a paintbrush and aren't Monet or Rembrandt? It's this little thing called talent, or in the sciences mental capacity. And I've never said home schooling was a bad thing. According to your latest data then, the next two most cited reasons of home schooling are indeed religious in nature. That's OK in my book- but don't laugh at Woody about it- because he does have a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Gorka said: The deflection, spin, twists, and turns going on around here is out of control. It's gone down to Woody attacking Cals copy and paste. You prove to them that homeschool kids are not autistic weirdos from nutty home instruction, that do function in society, but it seems they aint taking kindly to being told they're wrong. "Gone down to" He's been doing that shit for years. This is just the latest example "Prove" Yeah, not even close. But even that just supports points I've made before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 58 minutes ago, hoorta said: . That's OK in my book- but don't laugh at Woody about it- because he does have a point. I always do Their examples aren't doing them any favors. Hell, even in the list of people from centuries ago a lot of bios said they were only homeschooled for part of their childhood. And I'll always defer to the point that the vast, vast majority of people have no business trying to teach advanced high school classes. Maybe you can teach your kid well enough, and control their time we'll enough, that they do well on the ACT. But you probably aren't reaching them calculus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 28 minutes ago, hoorta said: And why would that be? After viewing this, I can't imagine why.. Yet the lemmings continue their march Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Axe said: The elitism exhibited by the so called progressives in this thread is priceless.. They know what's right for all.. Just ask them.. Hell, ya don't even have to ask them.. They'll still tell ya 🤣 Sorry, my IQ is very high. You know that it is. Don't feel bad that you can't follow along. It's not your fault. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 minute ago, MLD Woody said: Sorry, my IQ is very high. You know that it is. Don't feel bad that you can't follow along. It's not your fault. And when they're in doubt, just bring up by the might of MAGA, you're wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, hoorta said: And when they're in doubt, just bring up by the might of MAGA, you're wrong. I'm much smarter than them. I have a much higher IQ. I went to a better college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Just now, MLD Woody said: I'm much smarter than them. I have a much higher IQ. I went to a better college. OK, I'm unbiased enough to say UM is a pretty good school. But Ohio Stadium is way nicer than the Big House. They (you know who) are really, really good though at defending their hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorka Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Sigh. Students coming from a home school graduated college at a higher rate than their peers—66.7 percent compared to 57.5 percent—and earned higher grade point averages along the way, according to a study that compared students at one doctoral university from 2004-2009 Research suggests homeschooled children tend to do better on standardized tests, stick around longer in college, and do better once they're enrolled. A 2009 study showed that the proportion of homeschoolers who graduated from college was about 67%, while among public school students it was 59%.Jan 21, 2018 From the left leaning Business Insider. Homeschooling could be the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century — here are 5 reasons why https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-homeschooling-is-the-smartest-way-to-teach-kids-today-2018-1 Forge ahead sore losers, keep telling us how home schooling is bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, hoorta said: OK, I'm unbiased enough to say UM is a pretty good school. But Ohio Stadium is way nicer than the Big House. They (you know who) are really, really good though at defending their hero. Hey, some of them may think I'm a harsh person but I'm actually very kind (with a high IQ) with strong common sense. Also James Earl Jones says we're the best university in the world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted May 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 woody never has a point. Let me try to post like a woodpecker or Hoorta: "Lee Harvey Oswald went to public schools, and was mentally damaged, therefore going to public schools causes mental damage and murderers of presidents". egad. That DOES sound like woodpecker. not bad. Doesn't quite sound like Hoorta though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 30 minutes ago, Gorka said: Sigh. Students coming from a home school graduated college at a higher rate than their peers—66.7 percent compared to 57.5 percent—and earned higher grade point averages along the way, according to a study that compared students at one doctoral university from 2004-2009 Research suggests homeschooled children tend to do better on standardized tests, stick around longer in college, and do better once they're enrolled. A 2009 study showed that the proportion of homeschoolers who graduated from college was about 67%, while among public school students it was 59%.Jan 21, 2018 From the left leaning Business Insider. Homeschooling could be the smartest way to teach kids in the 21st century — here are 5 reasons why https://www.businessinsider.com/reasons-homeschooling-is-the-smartest-way-to-teach-kids-today-2018-1 Forge ahead sore losers, keep telling us how home schooling is bad. Funny- you're the one rushing to the defense of something that really hasn't been badmouthed, just been discussed from a realistic POV. . I've never used the term snowflake on this forum yet- but it applies to you now- got your widdle feelings hurt? And you missed what I said- that it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, at least twice. For sure, a lot of the kids who graduate from inner city drug and gang infested High Schools are already way behind the 8 ball when it comes to being ready for college. BTW, wasn't that the #1 reason parents opt for home schooling? Doubtless if I bothered to waste my time looking it up, I could as easily suggest that kids who graduate from high income suburban public High Schools (or private parochial schools) would even surpass those home school stats. Hey speaks with forked tongue- suggests ≠ proves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorka Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 3 hours ago, hoorta said: I can't hardly believe it.... Gorka may think it's been around for a long time- but in reality, it's a very recent phenomenon, taking off in the last 20 or so years. It certainly was unheard of back in the '60s. I suppose we can go back to the 1700s, but why stop there? Let's dial it all the way back 2,000 years to the time of Plato and Aristotle. St. Paul was home schooled by Gamaliel. AND the #1 reason cited for home schooling with a bullet is- either the parents don't like the public school system (can't blame them there) or they don't have the funds to send their kids to a private school where they would get a high quality education. My objective wasn't to prove how long home schooling was around, it was only to illustrate how many successful people were homeschooled. If homeschooling had taken place in the 1700's then I'm sure it was heard of in the 1960's. It just wasn't in effect in the 1960's, if that's what you meant. But the seeds were planted.https://www.shmoop.com/teachers/homeschool/introduction/history-of-homeschooling.html Ditto Woody. And from my tennis background- I can pretty confidently say the Williams sisters didn't have any stinkin' time for school. Out there on the court 6-8 hours every day with dad, and then lots of travel to the top junior tournaments. Same for any childhood prodigy athlete. Richard stopped sending his daughters to national junior tennis tournaments when Williams was 10 since he wanted them to go slowly and to focus on school work. Artists or composers? You either have the talent, or you don't. The student far exceeded the teacher in every respect. Now Leonardo- this Mona Lisa- it's not quite right, remember what I showed you about painting? Advanced symphonic composition isn't on the home school list of activities to my knowledge.... Yes Cal there are a few- very few- beyond MENSA geniuses in history- who essentially could teach themselves- because there didn't happen to be anyone around smarter than they were at the time. IIRC, Einstein's teachers thought he wasn't very intelligent- because he was operating on an entirely different mental plane than they were. The analogy I saw was the theoretical physicists of the time saw the fingernail on one finger- Einstein OTOH could see they whole hand. Education is a tool- all depends on how you use it. But every home schooled kid doesn't have a teacher like Florence Nightingale did either... And just because you were home schooled doesn't mean you're going to turn out a brilliant physicist like Blaise Pascal- you need the mental raw material You've made exceptions for the Williams sisters, Florence, Einstein, Leonardo. That's only a few. What about the 100's of normal people who became successful? Kind of a nonsense point you were making. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Gorka said: You've made exceptions for the Williams sisters, Florence, Einstein, Leonardo. That's only a few. What about the 100's of normal people who became successful? Kind of a nonsense point you were making. You want me to waste my time pointing out every exception? Just go away with that crap. Try damn near everyone on that list- that succeeded by talent, creativity, ingenuity, intelligence, or athletic prowess. Home schooled or not. Or you just like to argue about bullshit? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorka Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 On 5/15/2020 at 7:21 PM, calfoxwc said: time for the leftist governments to STOP INDOCTRINATING OUR SCHOOL KIDS. Now that the virus crisis has shown truly what all the liberal schools have been up to - 40% say they will now home-school their kids !!!!!! this is excellent. https://blackchristiannews.com/2020/05/poll-40-of-families-more-likely-to-homeschool-after-pandemic-ends/ HAHAHA You lefties need to start reining in your assumptions when discussing this topic. With political party as a factor, 45.7 percent of parents who said they would be “more likely” to homeschool identified as Democrat, while 42.3 percent identified as Republican. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 Not that anybody asked to me but I think homeschooling is probably some ridiculous bulshit. Yes I know some people who are very successful with it. Those that aren't are doing a grave disservice to not only the kid but the rest of society when the unsocialized little bastard gets out amongst real people. (Not that the public schools aren't fucked up in their own way but still...) WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted May 17, 2020 Report Share Posted May 17, 2020 9 hours ago, MLD Woody said: Sorry, my IQ is very high. You know that it is. Don't feel bad that you can't follow along. It's not your fault. Yeah, high 90s I'm sure. Thought ya had me on ignore 🤣 When ya throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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