Re: Many Muslims Turn to Home Schooling, NYT article?
Very interesting thread.
I think Homeschooling is best for children and those ho can teach their children at home should go for it.
Though I dislike the reason for homeschooling the girls to only train them to do house cleaning and cooking.
At the age of 12, boys and girls both should be able to clean their bedroom and make breakfast.
The reason why I’d like to homeschool my boys, because the failure of current education system that has been unable to produce individuals with independant thinking.
The purpose of homeschooling is to learn for the sake of learning and education and not for getting high marks and grades in exams.
I also agree with you, if children get proper *tarbiyah, *attention and religious values from their parents they do better at school than others who don’t get attention from their parents.
The research shows that homeschooled children are better at social skills than the schooled children, the reason for this can be that in schools children stay for 8 hours with the other children of their age but in other case homeschooled children spend more time with their parents, siblings and family members of different ages.
It is obvious that children will learn manners from adults and not from the other children of their age.
There are plenty of example of great people like Abraham Lincon and others who were homeschooled.
InshaAllah.
Do you have any kids?
There is a lot more about the benefits of homeschooling and about the failure of current education system, here are some links for the articles you can find and read.