Interesting facts about Homeschooling

More kids learn at home than attend all the public schools in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Rhode Island combined!
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Mount Rushmore, the world's largest stone monument, is a tribute to four Presidents - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt - who stood for the most honorable principles and highest ideals of America. Besides being great Presidents, what does each of these men have in common? As children, none of them had any regular, formal schooling. They were all self-educated and learned at home!
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Famous Homeschooling Parents:
Stefan von Trapp - grandson of Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music
John Travolta - actor, pilot
Darrell Waltrip - NASCAR racer
Garth Brooks - country music singer
Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Duane G. Carey - NASA astronaut

Famous Homeschooled Writers:
Louisa May Alcott - author of Little Women
Hans Christian Anderson - fairy tale writer
Margaret Atwood - Canadian novelist, poet
Pearl S. Buck - Nobel prize-winning author
William F. Buckley, Jr. - conservative writer
Agatha Christie - mystery author
Samuel Clemens - a.k.a. Mark Twain
Charles Dickens - British novelist
Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Helen Keller - blind and deaf author and lecturer
Rose Wilder Lane - journalist, ghostwriter, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder
C.S. Lewis - Christian writer and apologist
Christopher Paolini - teen author of Eragon
Isabel Paterson - conservative political author
Beatrix Potter - author of Peter Rabbit Tales
Carl Sandburg - American poet
George Bernard Shaw - Irish-born playwright
Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs
Rosemary Sutcliff - historical novels for children
Walt Whitman - American poet
Laura Ingalls Wilder - children’s book author
Virginia Woolf - English novelist

Homeschooled Educators:
Erik Demaine - associate professor of Computer Science at MIT
Timothy Dwight - President of Yale University
William Samuel Johnson - President of Columbia College
Charlotte Mason - Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education
Joyce Reed - Associate Dean of the College, Brown University
Fred Terman - President of Stanford University
Frank Vandiver - President of Texas A&M University
Booker T. Washington - teacher and founder of Tuskegee Institute
John Witherspoon - President of Princeton University

Homeschooled Business Entrepreneurs
Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel industrialist
Amadeo Giannini - Bank of America’s founder
Horace Greeley - New York Tribune founder
Soichiro Honda - creator of the Honda automobile company
Ray Kroc - founder of McDonald's fast food restaurant chain
Dr. Orison Swett Marden - founder, Success magazine
Adolph Ochs - New York Times founder
Joseph Pulitzer - newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize
Colonel Harland Sanders - started Kentucky Fried Chicken
Dave Thomas - founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain

SHOULD I GO ON?