More Decisions – Where? Choices (Part 8)
Categories: Choices, Léo’s Insights 2022-2023
Where to home educate is quite likely answered with a “duh”, but allow me to expand a bit.
The simple answer is home education takes place at home as opposed to at school. However, while it may be easy to describe a school setting, home is a bit more difficult to pin down.
It is said that home is where the heart is. Somehow, I suspect this includes more than a building where meals are most often served. We are all acquainted with the comfort of being home. I still remember hearing an older man stating that home is where you can scratch what itches when it does. I like that. Let’s face it, we are most free at home. We do things there that we would never consider doing publicly. Thankfully!
Home is the most important element in home education. Education is just the process of learning, often maybe more a matter of directing learning. Indeed, when I hear politicians or “experts” say we need to educate the people, I most often hear “indoctrination” or “brainwashing” is required. Still, let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Education is a good thing that does require direction, hopefully provided by parents rather than the institution of school, or church or government. All these institutions have their place, but not in the home, hence home education.
Home is where the family is. That’s because family is where the heart is. This is the only possibility for human creation, and creation is the expression of love. So, where should this home education take place? The answer is, yes. By this I mean, it happens in all places and all the time. Children are born learning, anywhere, anytime, anyhow. Schools restrict this to a scheduled time, place and prescribed program. Home education works with the child, without attempting to make the child into an institutional product of school, church or government.
As home educators, absolutely everything becomes a field trip and field trips are created to provide opportunity for learning. New home educators will quickly discover that the school room doesn’t work. Children want to be home, at the kitchen table with mom and dad. And if mom or dad go somewhere, children want to go also. And where mom and dad and children go, there is the family. And where the family goes, home follows. And where home is, education takes place. Enjoy the freedom of learning, wherever you are. Your children will love it.
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