Stolen from another homeschooler . . .

This is from an article ‘Home Is Where the School Is’ by Patricia Heidenry from the October 19, 1975 issue of The New York Times Magazine. " My desire to educate the children at home is based essentially on my belief that it is almost immoral for the children to spend a large portion of their youth in one building with more than a thousand other children and teachers in an environment that is lifeless and not life-giving. I use the word "immoral" to emphasize how strongly I feel about the time that is wasted by children in school. And I use it to indicate that this time wasted is something more important than children's I.Q.'s. Our children's lives – not their reading scores – should be our primary Concern. Children's lives are more than products that must he molded until they adapt well to society, or to another school, or to the work force. As it is now, a child's life is very much bound up with schools and schooling, and that animating force that gives life to each child is ignored in the rush to maintain reading levels, to excel academically, to make the honors class, to pass and to gain admittance to college. Children have no control at all over their lives in most schools. Their personalities and their individual talents are never the basis of the curriculum."