Are you ready to explore the world of homeschooling in Alaska? You've come to the right place! We've gathered the best and most helpful resources, along with support and ideas to help you, whether you are just beginning to homeschool or you've been homeschooling for years. Kick off your visit by exploring these great starting points:
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Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!
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- Alexander Herzen |
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Famous Homeschoolers |
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Inspire your homeschooler with real-life stories of famous homeschoolers throughout history. |
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What is the Advantage of Homeschooling? |
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So what is the advantage of homeschooling? There are many homeschooling advantages, and for each family, different advantages will be deemed more important than others. One main advantage of homeschooling is that you can determine what and how your child is taught. You know your children best and are the best qualified to determine what will be important for them to experience and understand, to best utilize their God-given talents and realize their potential.
But here are some of the most important benefits to homeschooling, particularly for those who want to celebrate the uniqueness of each of their children and create a foundation for their later financial independence. |
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On the Edge of the 21st Century |
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HSLDA |
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The right to home school is based on two fundamental principles of liberty: religious freedom and parental rights. Whenever one of these two freedoms is threatened, our right to home school is in jeopardy. Here are the battles we think home educators will be facing as we enter the next century:
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Universal Preschool |
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There is a national campaign to institutionalize all preschoolers through government funded and/or mandated "universal preschool." This group seeks to redefine universal preschool as an unheralded worldwide community of loving, functional parents who exercise their right and authority to nurture and teach their young children at home. |
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