Educating at home: what can we learn

However, while educational reforms in Europe push towards earlier and longer schooling, some people make a deliberate choice to educate their children at home. In the past, this was the case for the parents of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, and Pierre Curie, among many world famous personalities, testifying that learning at home could be as beneficial as learning at school. Today's research evidence, mostly from the US, also indicates that home educated children nowadays perform as well as school educated ones, if not better. More...