Doug's Blog: The Excellence of Home Education

“The homeschool parent who assumes the role of tutor is providing the best known, longest-tested approach known to educational history. That is the reason homeschool children are now welcomed at every university in the land. Homeschooling produces young men and women who are literate in the best sense, well mannered, normal, and self-confident. The myth is that they miss the benefits of “socialization” and “democracy” in unsafe schools, with prejudiced teachers, unruly crowds, and biased lessons. In contemporary America, nobody can escape rubbing elbows with every race, every ethnic background, and every level of citizen. It is best to have this experience when one is equipped to discern the difference between ability and pretense, morality and stupidity, propinquity and friendship. And, when one can defend what one knows and believes. It is, after all, crucial to understand and respect differences, but first one must establish one’s own identity. Education is slow; socialization is quick.” From the foreward of Otto Scott’s Great Christian Revolution: How Christianity Transformed the World. The Reformer Library. Windsor, New York 1995