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Home-Centered Education

I read a quote awhile back that said something to the extent of the proper way to home school is to think of home as your base, but the education should extend beyond the home, into the community and out into the world as a whole. Of course, I can’t for the life of me remember where I read that quote; I think it was in The Question by Leigh Bortins. But don’t quote me on that. 😉

Anyway, the idea is that home schooling should be home-centered but we should not treat it as a prison that we can never leave. I’ve always worked hard at getting us out of the house to do as many things as possible. Sometimes we just stay home for weeks on end, making our way through math and Latin. And sometimes we have so many field trips and weekend adventures planned that we don’t crack open a textbook at all. You never know what  a week of school will look like around here.

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