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Homeschooling

Homeschooling can be defined as the education of children at home rather than in a public or private school. Today most children are institutionally schooled. Homeschooling can be divided into sections. The first section would be titled "The Beginning of Homeschooling." In 1964, John Caldwell Holt published his first book called "How Children Fail." Mr. Holt weas a teacher, an observer of children and education. He believed that the academic failure of schoolchildren was not in spite of the efforts of the schools but it was the lack of addressing the learning processes of children. He wrote one book about homeschooling, Teach Your Own, 1981, and continued to hope for more expansive reform within education until his death in 1985.

Educational professionals Ray and Dorothy Moore believed that formal schooling was damaging young children academically, socially, mentally, and even physiologically. They felt that the bonds and emotional development made at home with parents during a child's younger years, produced critical long term results that were cut short by enrollment into schols, and could neither be replaced not afterward corrected in a n institutional setting. Both Holt and the Moores thought that home education should not be an attempt to bring the school construct into the home, or view of education as an academic preliminary to life. They viewed it as a natural, experiential aspect of life that occurs as the members of the family are involved with one another in daily living.