Why Home Schooling?
Proverbs 22:6 instructs us to “train up a child in the way he should go.” The focus on this verse is in two areas. Training, and “the way.” There is a common misconception that raising and training are the same thing. They are not. Raising crops or livestock requires making sure their basic needs for survival are met while training children goes beyond basic academic learning into the area of what we know as discipling. When one is a disciple, he or she is not only learning knowledge of a subject but also learning character traits, social skills, and human relations.
This is where many Christians fail to understand that the instruction of false knowledge is only a very small part of the danger of public education. The greater danger is that of a child learning character traits, social skills, and human relations that are not rooted in Scripture, from non-Christians. The Bible gives the responsibility of discipling children to the parents in Deuteronomy 6:6-7: “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. (7) Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." God was clearly instructing the Israelites that they were to be teaching the scriptures all day long. It would have been impossible if the kids were at “school” all day learning opposing views. There are certainly other scriptural references to home schooling, but this is the foundation of Home Education.
