To what extent it is right that home is a first school ?

Question

should children really bo sent to school even if they can learn at home as same as they can do at school ?

Answer 1

To the fullest extent possible.  The home is the first institution children enter.  

And I completely agree that there is no need for most formal education.  At least not until university study, then it is more difficult to pick up detailed and specific studies.

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Answer 2

I'm sure some people start the schooling process at home so in those cases it would be true. However I don't think that everybody does.

Now, let me be clear on this. I'm not talking about education, about learning, just 'schooling' which isn't the same thing at all.

Home is certainly the place where children start to learn, and to receive an education but I'd be deeply insulted if someone suggested that I was providing a school for my dd.

Answer 3

Our home is NOT a school.  We learn from everything, everywhere, and don't 'do school.'  My kids learn from me, their dad, other relatives, friends, neighbors, TV, internet, games, libraries, etc.  No hint of school anywhere.

Answer 4

Absolutely true. How could it not be? You learn to speak, walk, eat with a fork, basic hygiene and manners at home. It is just as easy to learn the three "R"s there too. There is absolutely no academic or social reason to send a child to school. You can, and for some it is a blessing. But for others, the public schools are simply not the best choice.

Answer 5

to a great deal, except of course when there's no "home" in the first place

Answer 6

You say that children should be sent to school ---- for what reason I have no clue.

Home is the first place that a child learns anything.

Schools are for fish.

Children have been taught at home since the beginning of time ----- group schools are a fairly modern invention.

The statistics are in and prove over and over again that an education received at home is superior to that obtained in a classroom.

www.nheri.org

Answer 7

irOf course home is the first school.

When you consider the fact that people learn more in their first five years than in the rest of their life, home is the most important school.

But then children turn five or so, and many parents fall for the lie that all of a sudden they are incompetent teachers.

Add to this the idea of "universal preschool" and the government is trying to take children out of the first - and best - school earlier and earlier.

Scary, huh.