As you may imagine, we are very much in favor of homeschooling. First and foremost is because it is often done as a way to provide systematic religious instruction that is missing from the public school system altogether. Although there are churches, and synagogues, and mosques, there are many who believe the principles of religion should be integrated throughout the educational process because there are so many ways in which divine principles come to bear on human events and choices, even with the idea of learning and how things are prioritized, and how the success and failings experienced along the way need to be treated as opportunities to serve the self and benefit personal learning and growth as a divine undertaking, and so forth. This can be exaggerated to the point of silliness, but what we are talking about is the idea of embracing the need to have instruction about morality and ethics as an integral part of everything involving the young, and this is of supreme importance as an aspect of education because inculcating these concepts and ideas are a tremendous blessing to impart a good sense of who one is and what one can best do to make their lives a success, and why. These are fundamental needs as well as ideas that deserve to be reckoned with.
To not do so, which is the case with the government-run school systems, is gutting the whole process of maturation so it is outside a framework that enables integrating the divine perspective of life as being integral to an understanding of life’s purpose and how to comport oneself to find true happiness and become a good citizen in all respects. Without it, one is left with an endless series of rules and regulations, well-meaning but often ill-timed and poorly worded legal pronouncements and standards that are poorly understood, poorly managed, and poorly constructed in the first place, in large part, because they are never subjected to scrutiny with a higher perspective in alignment with the way the divine views things, and the issues at hand faced by humans. The whole of life and human culture is degraded and cheapened by an absence of divine wisdom in all that takes place. When this is not avidly sought, and not only promoted, but given great intense effort to see to a careful scrutiny of all that happens with this in mind to ensure that things are in divine alignment, it immediately lowers the bar and the standards will be faulty and ineffective in promoting public welfare and achieving human potential individually and collectively.
Loving parents who can take the time to be with their children and see to an effective exposure to core curriculum requirements will find this not only feasible to do by the layperson but will do a much better job, on average, than the school system and this is because much of the administrative distractions and the inefficiencies of having to teach within a large group setting versus a small group, and the problems of so many troubled beings thrust together and maintaining order, and seeing to their needs individually at the same time as serving the group as a whole, provides the environment where things will fall through the cracks and children are neglected in serious ways and it may not come to light for quite a while. And children who flounder will often be passed along simply to be rid of them and never become competent learners and this is a waste of human capital and a quite harmful, destructive influence channeling the young into lives of failure and self-recrimination because they are literally taught to believe they are defective in some way.
This is much less likely to happen when education is entrusted to loving parents. After all, it is simply logic and apparent on its face that the ideal is to have teachers who not only wish to teach children effectively and get results but can do so lovingly for each student equally, despite their personalities and peculiarities from the teacher’s perspective. Who better to do that than loving parents who know their child better than anyone? And through the bonds of parental love, will be more tolerant, on average, than teachers can be, given the stresses and strains of their profession and the heavy demands on them to deal with many, many students and keep the administrators and parents happy with the process and its outcome.
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