Famous Homeschoolers

So, what do the following people have in common?

Leonardo da Vinci
Irving Berlin
Frederick Terman (President of Stanford University)
John Witherspoon (President of Princeton University)
Claude Monet
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Brigham Young
Joan of Arc
Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
Winston Churchil
Benjamin Franklin
Hans Christian Andersen
C.S. Lewis
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Agatha Christie
Will Rogers
Florence Nightingale
Charlie Chaplin
Ansel Adams

Answer: They were all homeschooled.

Thanks to the website referenced below for compiling the list. And, I have only selectively picked from the list, so check out the website. Inspiring, don't you think? Looks like we are in good company.

List of Famous Homeschoolers from www.christianhomeschoolers.com

Volunteerism

One of the most incredible differences I have seen with our 8th grade daughter since we began homeschooling is the frequency with which she now volunteers around the house. The change may not be 100% attributable to homeschooling (she has also been attending weekly Bible study for about two months now), but I am convinced homeschooling has played a major role in her transformation.

Over the past weeks, our daughter has consistently volunteered to perform chores (washing dishes, laundry, cleaning up). She has also volunteered and prepared dinners and now routinely comes up to me asking if she can do something for me.

Along with the volunteerism naturally follows hope and, as I have written before, restoring or instilling hope has and will continue to be a key goal for us as we homeschool our daughter. So far, so good.

As things are coming together nicely around the house, soon we will have to venture out and enable our daughter to volunteer in support of causes and efforts outside the house. She has already come to us with a couple ideas, including Habitat for Humanity.