Home Education New to Home Education.....Home Education Myths...Good Education Requires Expensive Facilities Good Education Requires Expensive Facilities For the life of me, I cannot see what the cost of a building has to do with children's ability to leam! Perhaps. if the roof leaked on the textbook it might make some difference. Most homes, though, do not have a serious problem with a leaky roof. Even if they did it would not be too difficult to move the book until the rain stopped or the roof was repaired. Now that I think of it. repairing the roof might give homeschoolers an excellent educational experience. I have enjoyed observing children learn from their simplest experiences and in some of the simplest circumstances. There is wisdom in God's instructions in Deuteronomy 6:7. which calls for parents to teach their children when they sit with them in the house, while they walk with them in the way. at bedtime, and upon rising in the morning. Quality education can readily be accomplished in the natural setting of the home during the daily affairs of the family, and in the arena of the world around us where God has so clearly recorded both knowledge and wisdom. Psalms 19:1-3 tells us; "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard." Our forefathers received an education by the light of the ebbing fire, or out in the field, or perhaps in the forest, cutting logs. On the other hand. I see the modem student standing beside the road, after the morning rush to swallow breakfast and locate all the lost shoes, books and paraphernalia, waiting to catch the regulation yellow bus with its regulation seats. It will carry him to the regulation building with the regulation classrooms and on and on ad infinitum regulatum. Are regulation shoes treading the regulation halls as blessed as toes at home in the soil? |
