Eye Opening Statistics & Quotes for Homeschooling
- The average public school teacher spends 4 minutes a day of individual instruction with each child
- The home-educated typically score 15 to 30 percentile points above public-school students on standardized academic achievement tests. (The public school average is the 50th percentile; scores range from 1 to 99.) A 2015 study found Black homeschool students to be scoring 23 to 42 percentile points above Black public school students (Ray, 2015). https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/
- Homeschooled students graduated college at a rate of 66.7%, A study led by Michael Cogan by the University of St. Thomas revealed that the homeschool graduation statistics is 10% higher than that of students from public schools. https://admissionsly.com/homeschooling-statistics/
- Homeschoolers score 15%-30% more than students in public schools in the standardized academic achievement exams. This is in line with reports from The National Home Education Research Institute in 2015. It shows that irrespective of the parent’s educational level and financial level, homeschoolers can score well.
- Homeschooled students graduated college at a rate of 66.7%. A study led by Michael Cogan by the University of St. Thomas revealed that the homeschool graduation statistics is 10% higher than that of students from public schools.
- Research facts on homeschooling show that the home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem.
- 87% of peer-reviewed studies on social, emotional, and psychological development show homeschool students perform statistically significantly better than those in conventional schools (Ray, 2017).
- Adults who were home educated are more politically tolerant than the public schooled in the limited research done so far. https://www.nheri.org/research-facts-on-homeschooling/
- Homeschooled students score about 72 points higher than the national average on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The average American College Test (ACT) score is 21. The average score for homeschoolers is 22.8 out of a possible 36 points. Homeschoolers are at the 77th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. (The School Revolution, Ron Paul)
- A growing body of research indicates that graduates of home-based education excel. Eleven of the 16 peer-reviewed studies on success into adulthood (including college) showed that homeschoolers had better results for political tolerance, college GPA, and college retention than students in conventional schools.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2020/05/the-academic-and-social-benefits-of-homeschooling/
- Homeschool students are regularly engaged in social and educational activities outside their homes and with people other than their nuclear-family members. They are commonly involved in activities such as field trips, scouting, 4-H, political drives, church ministry, sports teams, and community volunteer work.
Inspiring Quotes to Homeschool
I homeschool because I have seen the village and I don’t want it raising my kids.
– Unknown author
I homeschool my children not to prepare them for exams, but to prepare them for life.
― Tamara L Chilver
“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”
― Gandhi
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
― Agatha Christie
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.”
― Plato
“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”
― David O. McKay
“The home is the chief school of human virtues.”
― William Ellery Channing
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.”
― James Beattie
Homeschooled children benefit the community because they are not shaped by peers but by parents. – Mary Kay Clark
‘I’ve never met a homeschool mom (who home educated for more than a couple of years) who regretted her decision. But, I’ve met plenty of moms who have regretted sending their children to school.’ – Rebbecca Devitt, Why on Earth Homeschool
Don’t worry about socialization. Wherever people congregate, there is going to be interaction, socialization.” Where is it written that it needs to be in schools? – Mary Kay Clark
Famous Homeschoolers:
(These may surprise you)
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Robert Frost
C.S. Lewis
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Joan of Arc
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Tim Tebow
Winston Churchill
Dwight L. Moody
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
James Madison
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
James Garfield
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Grover Cleveland
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
James Monroe
James Polk
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt