Homeschool Fever

Moral Instruction and Training in Schools Report of an International Inquiry …
By Michael Sadler, Executive committee of the inquiry of the
United Kingdom on moral instruction and training in schools
Question:  The comparative ethical value of different school studies - Is it desirable that more practical work and manual training should be introduced into the curriculum?
Reply from Miss [...]

If you educate using Charlotte Mason’s methods of living books, nature studies, and short days, you will very well likely be familiar with her series of lecture volumes called Home Education. Here is an interesting write up I found in the Journal of Education that offers a CM contemporary review of volume 3 of her [...]

Pre-1850s - Many children are educated in private schools or in the home; grammar schools are available in many larger towns, but attendence is not forced.  Parents had the right to choose and it wasn’t questioned!
1842 - Charlotte Mason is born in England
1852 - Massachusettes declares a compulsary education law for all
Mid-1800s - McGuffey Readers [...]

By Dorothy L. Sayers
Historical Note:  This essay spawned the re-birth of classical education training in America, specifically among the homeschooling movement.
That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology. It is a kind of behavior to which the present climate of [...]

British native Dorothy L. Sayers was a renown crime and detective author, who’s best known character was Lord Peter Wimsey.  She was very well educated and one of the first women to receive a degree from Oxford College in 1920.  Her literary contemparies - and friends - included the great C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
As a student [...]

John Holt, a teacher, is best known as the “Father of Unschooling”, based on his views of education that called for radical reform of the American education system during the 1950’s - 1970’s.
His work evolved from teaching, to recognizing that the current educational system needed a change, to realizing that change was not likely to happen, [...]