Homeschooling in the United States: History and Influence

Lyman(2006) writes about the definition, history, and current social importance of homeschooling in the United States. The author defines the education which is provided at home instead of school as homeschooling. She sates thatearlier homeschooling was confined mostly to the handicapped children who were not fit along with the regular students, who need extra care and the wealthier classes who wanted their children to be prepared for university studies. She continues to give an information that the number of families considering their children to have their schooling at home is increasing every year with the awareness of the positive traits of homeschooling followed bythe research work by the educational specialists, even while other education

In schools the children are made to learn the syllabus which the school follows , they have to learn this along with all the students even if they are interested or not . At times it might happen that even the student who has knowledge of subjects outside the school syllabus may stick to the school syllabus, whereas that is not the case with the children who are homeschooled , these children are mostly taught those subjects in which they have interest along with that they have flexible schedule so they have ample amount of time to progress with their ideas and being creative giving them a better learning experience. When a student starts progressing with his/her ideas they would develop the ability to think on their own for their ideas rather than depending on their peers this case makes them being self-dependent. To support this we can take many real time examples of famous Einstein, who had difficulty in school had dropped out and learnt what he liked and now everyone in school 's study his research work. Since the children have better learning experinces they even have higher score achievements than other 's we can conisder this from the Lyman 's writing where she tells us that " David and Micki Colfax gained national attention when three of their four home-schooled sons attended Harvard" , this clearly states that homeschooled children can outperform the other