We home school because we love being with our children, sharing life together.   We can be ourselves and explore the world around at our own individual pace.  There are no pressures to learn only to have fun and watch the changes in ourselves as we comprehend more, its exciting and uplifting, that is our reward. 

John Holt wrote: 
I do not think we can treat as separate the quality of education and the quality of life in general. ... I am saying that truly good education in a bad society is a contradiction in terms. In short, in a society that is absurd, unworkable, wasteful, destructive, secretive, coercive, monopolistic, and generally anti-human, we could never have good education, no matter what kind of schools the powers permit, because it is not the educators or the schools but the whole society and the quality of life in it that really educate. This means that whatever we do to improve the quality of life, for anyone, and in whatever part of his life, to that degree improves education. 

We must change society before we can change the schools." 

Home schooling parents encourage their children to find, as Holt put it, "A life worth living and work worth doing... not just, or not even, something called "a better education." 

Taken from wonder tree's email newsletters

I would like to see schools used as resource centers for all to enjoy.

Beginning to learn is a scroll my girls and I put together for a young German friend who was beginning his first year of schooling.  It is traditional for the family to give a party to celebrate this step in life.

Poster I made for us at home.

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