Send CathInfo's owner Matthew a gift from his Amazon wish list:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/25M2B8RERL1UO

Author Topic: Best book-length defense of homeschooling?  (Read 11904 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Re: Best book-length defense of homeschooling?
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2024, 10:04:15 PM »
Yes, I do remember Seton's book.  At www.Joyfulcatholic,  also known as refuge of sinners, a book titled "public education". This one will go an angle on Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ that brought the public schools in to teach no God.
That link doesn't work.  When I typed in .com, I was redirected to this:

https://www.traditionalcatholicpublishing.com/

Offline MaterDominici

  • Mod
  • Supporter
Re: Best book-length defense of homeschooling?
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2024, 10:23:21 PM »
That link doesn't work.  When I typed in .com, I was redirected to this:

https://www.traditionalcatholicpublishing.com/
I'm pretty sure she's referring to Public School Education by Muller which I linked to above (public domain).


defense of homeschooling
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2024, 01:47:46 PM »
[Catholic Home Schooling: A Handbook for Parents is an] out-of-print TAN book by Seton Homeschool director Dr. Mary Kay Clark.
Thanks again for this work. I'm only about ⅛ of the way through it, but right off the bat it covers the advantages of homeschooling:
Thomas Nelson's preface lists 8 advantages, pp. xvii-xx:
  • "You do not waste the students’ time."
  • "You do not re-teach what the student already knows."
  • "You can give your own children more individualized attention."
  • "You can gear the work to a pace your children can handle and that will keep them interested."
  • "You can (and should) eliminate the option to fail!"
  • "You can build in automatic consequences for failure to perform."
  • "You can emphasize reading."
  • "Home schooling eliminates the silliness and nonsense picked up from peers."
and Dr. Clark's ch. 1 (pp. 1-22) argues homeschooling's advantages:
  • no sex-ed (indoctrination into ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity; cf. Fr. John F. O'Connor, O.P., "The State of [']Catholic['] Education," who told parents not to send their children to "Catholic" schools)
  • character formation
  • academics
  • public (& "Catholic") schools "the training camps of the enemies of Jesus Christ and His Church." (p. 9)
  • raising "cradle Catholics"
  • benefits for the
    • student: socialization
    • mother
    • father
    • family
    • community
    • Church
    • nation

Offline MaterDominici

  • Mod
  • Supporter
Re: defense of homeschooling
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2024, 12:12:49 AM »
    "You can (and should) eliminate the option to fail!"
It takes a long time for many to wrap their heads around the idea that grades are pointless in homeschooling. A grade is a reflection of how well a student does compared to the other students. In homeschooling, there's no point in moving on if the student hasn't learned the material.

Re: Best book-length defense of homeschooling?
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2024, 08:00:58 AM »

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. 


Children belong to God and parents; not the government.