Dodging the Homeschool Stereotype beliefnet.com
This defensive reaction doesn’t do justice to my own reasons for homeschooling. The truth is, I am teaching my sons at home for religious reasons; I find most classrooms to be toxic social environments, where children are taught to gang up on the weakest to survive. As a Christian, I want my own sons to turn away from violence, to learn humility, compassion, and patience. This, to me, is proper socialization. It isn’t going to take place if my three boys are surrounded for most of each day by a crowd of peers who thrive on aggression and a steady diet of multimedia bloodshed.But my religious convictions can’t be separated from my academic goals for my children. Classical education–my mother’s method of teaching, and the method I now use to teach my own children–views teacher and student as bound together in discipleship, in which a respected elder leads a receptive learner toward knowledge and wisdom.
http://www.zikrcast.com/podcast/VidStream/ZVCast_Ep5Strm.mov Shaikh Hamza on Heedlessness
