Homeschool Blogging A-Z: N is for Non-Traditional

For all intents and purposes, homeschooling is non-traditional learning.  Traditional learning is learning that happens in a classroom... or is it.  Our traditional learning systems have only been part of tradition for a couple hundred years.  According to this and many other articles, religious schooling in the US began in the 1600's and formal public schooling wasn't mandatory until the 1900's.

So before "Traditional Schooling" came into vogue, most kids were homeschooled.... i.e. they were taught whatever they learned at home. Only the richest kids were formally educated. 

Regardless of the history, homeschooling is non-traditional now, but many of the great leaders of our country had non-traditional educations.



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