ZAP brought up a good point. Name me one successful person who was home-schooled. How's this?

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FAMOUS HOMESCHOOLERS

Constitutional Convention Delegates

Richard Basseti - Governor of Delaware

William Blount - U.S. Senator

George Clymer - U.S. Representative

William Few - U.S. Senator

Benjamin Franklin - Inventor and Statesman

William Houston - Lawyer

William S. Johnson - President of Columbia College

William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey

James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.

George Mason - Justice of Virginia County Court

John Francis Mercer - U.S. Representative

Charles Pickney III - Governor of S. Carolina

John Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court

Richard D. Spaight - Governor of North Carolina

George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.

John Witherspoon - President of Princeton University

George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court

Presidents

John Adams

John Quincy Adams

Grover Cleveland

James Garfield

William Henry Harrison

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

James Madison

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

John Tyler

George Washington

Woodrow Wilson

Statesmen

Konrad Adenauer

Henry Fountain Ashurst

William Jennings Bryan

Winston Churchill

Henry Clay

Pierre du Pont

Benjamin Franklin

Alexander Hamilton

Patrick Henry

William Penn

Daniel Webster

Military Leaders

John Barry - Senior Navy Officer

Stonewall Jackson - Civil War General

John Paul Jones - Father of the American Navy

Robert E. Lee - Civil War General

Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General

George Patton - U.S. General

Matthew Perry - naval officer who opened up trade with Japan

John Pershing - U.S. General

David Dixon Porter - Civil War Admiral

U.S. Supreme Court Judges

John Jay

John Marshall

John Rutledge

Sandra Day O'Connor

Scientists

George Washington Carver

Pierre Curie

Albert Einstein

Michael Faraday - electrochemist

Oliver Heaviside - physicist and electromagnetism researcher

T.H. Huxley

Blaise Pascal

Booker T. Washington

Artists

William Blake

John Singleton Copley

Claude Monet

Grandma Moses

Charles Peale

Leonardo da Vinci

Andrew Wyeth

Jamie Wyeth

Religious Leaders

Joan of Arc

William Carey

Jonathan Edwards

Philipp Melancthon

Dwight L. Moody

John Newton

John Owen

Hudson Taylor

John & Charles Wesley

Brigham Young

Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone

John Moses Browning - firearms inventor and designer

Peter Cooper - invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive

Thomas Edison - invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb

Benjamin Franklin - invented the lightning rod

Elias Howe - invented sewing machine

William Lear - airplane creator Cyrus McCormick - invented grain reaper

Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio

Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin

Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo jet engine

Orville and Wilbur Wright - built the first successful airplane

Composers

Irving Berlin

Anton Bruckner

Noel Coward

Felix Mendelssohn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Francis Poulenc

John Philip Sousa

Writers

Hans Christian Anderson

Margaret Atwood

Pearl S. Buck

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Willa Cather

Agatha Christie

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Charles Dickens

Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Alex Haley

Brett Harte

L. Ron Hubbard

C.S. Lewis

Amy Lowell

Gabriela Mistral

Sean O'Casey

Christopher Paolini - author of #1 NY Times bestseller, Eragon

Isabel Paterson

Beatrix Potter - author of the beloved Peter Rabbit Tales

Carl Sandburg

George Bernard Shaw

Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs

Mercy Warren

Phillis Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Educators

Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott Catharine Beecher - co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary

Jill Ker Conway - first woman president of Smith College

Timothy Dwight - President of Yale University

William Samuel Johnson - President of Columbia College

Horace Mann - "Father of the American Common School"

Charlotte Mason - Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education

Fred Terman - President of Stanford University

Frank Vandiver - President of Texas A&M University

Booker T. Washington - Founder of Tuskegee Institute

John Witherspoon - President of Princeton University

Performing Artists

Louis Armstrong - king of jazz

Charlie Chaplin - actor

Whoopi Goldberg - actress

Hanson - sibling singing group

Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress

Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy violinist

Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson

Frankie Muniz - child actor

LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy country music singer Business Entrepreneurs

Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel ind

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Message: I repeat myself..."Home-schooling" does not equate to being "self-taught" because society in the days of Di Vinci, etc. lacked the means to educate the masses...I already told you that. Every person on that list was either taught by a private tutor because the family was rich enough to afford one or were self-taught because they had the motivation and drive to get out of the poor house their family was in and public schooling was not available. C'mon...you can't be that gullible.

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I've met one family that home schooled and had well adjusted, wonderful & sharp kids. They did it because they moved around a lot for work and it created some consistency for the kids.

The Constitutional Convention people were obviously around before public schooling was readily available, not sure that should be even remotely compared to modern day homeschoolers.

The rest of the homeschoolers I've met are very much like the stereotype of the extreme religious zealot mixed with militia types. It's usually a couple who thinks everyone else on the planet except them is going to hell, and they don't believe in dinosaurs. In the far past, I'm sure plenty of kids were home schooled or self schooled, these days, it primarily appeals to people who can't adjust to life or other people, and they brainwash their children within the home, cutting them off from any contact with the outside world. There are a few real life exceptions, but the majority are kind of nuts.

Answer 3

ZAP brought up a good point.

I find that simply amazing,,,,next it will be fly in the ointment.

Answer 4

OK name me one more

Good job

Answer 5

Cool I believe it is very beneficial to the children. No one cares more then family.

Answer 6

that's it? lol!! How many pages would it take to list the amount of successful people who attended public schools?

Answer 7

That all you got?

So the rest of the millions of successful people were not home-schooled? You have what 50 examples here? many of them child actors/actresses who had no other choice but homeschooling?

Your question is the perfect example of one that should be unstarrable.

Answer 8

More than half of those people turned out to be liberal. Some, like Shaw, Einstein and Chaplin, out-and-out socialists, unlike President Obama.

Louis Armstrong was not homeschooled. He was taught in a combination orphanage/reform school, where he was taught the trade that made him world-famous, much like his athletic equivalent, Babe Ruth.

LeAnn Rimes? Homewrecker? You want her on your conservative side?

Andrew Carnegie? All that money he donated to good causes will never bring back the lives of those who died on his orders.

And Hanson? Do you really want to cite those three bozos? To say nothing of their Canadian equivalent?

Face it, this question really blew up in your face.