Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Being able to choose what we can read is a basic element of intellectual freedom. Yet in a school setting, this is controlled by the teacher. One of the benefits of home schooling is the ability to guide our students through the halls of knowledge without having to polute their minds with what other people and other worldviews dictate as the way to educate our children.
I'd much rather help my children understand what brought about the fall of the Roman republic and the empire's eventual collapse from within rather than go over the various deviant sexual practices in the empire and point to them as acceptable behaviors. Helping them grasp the lessons from history and what we can do to help restore our nation is something very close to my heart.
That's what homeschooling is really all about. It's impressing on the hearts of our children the work that God has done within our hearts and helping them understand their part in the grand metanarrative of history, cooperating with God in placing the knowledge and skills in their heads and the love and grace in their hearts.
Deuteronomy 11 talks about how the next generation of children coming up after the Exodus from Egypt will not know the miracles of God unless they are impressed by the parents. It's almost as if the chapter were written to parents in 21st century America! Teach your children how God has moved in your own lifetime so that God can bless them in their lifetime.
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