Conservapedia:Homeschooler list

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"At twelve, unable to stand the confinement and tedium of the classroom, he utterly disrupted his lessons with wild laughter and undisguised contempt for the inept ramblings of his teachers. His father decided that Ansel’s formal education was best ended. From that point forward, the boy was homeschooled in Greek, the English classics, algebra, and the glories of the ocean, inlets, and rocky beaches that surrounded their home very near San Francisco." ([1])

PARTIALLY TRUE

"After being dismissed from several private schools for his restlessness and inattentiveness, his father decided to pull him out of school in 1915, at the age of 12. Adams was then educated by private tutors, his Aunt Mary, and by his father. During the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, his father insisted that, as part of his education, Adams spend a good part of each day studying the exhibits. After a while, Adams resumed and then completed his formal education by attending another private school until eighth grade." (Wikipedia)

Searching websites gives the impression that his private tutoring lasted for 1 year:

"1915 - Despises the regimentation of a regular education, and is taken out of school. For that year, his father buys him a season pass to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, which he visits nearly every day. Private tutors provide further instruction." ([2])

John Adams (1735-1826), U.S. President. Learned to read at home, and was then taught in the kitchen by a neighbor with a handful of children. He matriculated to Harvard College at age 15. (uncited)

FALSE

John was taught to read by his father while he a was still a young child. John attended a series of schools. His favorite subject was math. John had little patience for schooling. His father had dreams of John graduating from Harvard and becoming a minister. John agreed to become more attentive of studies if his father would place him under the tutelage of Joseph Marsh, who ran a more challenging school. John's school work improved and he entered Harvard in 1751, a year older than the usual student at that time. Adams graduated in 1755 with Bachelor of Arts degree. Adams graduated 15 in a class of 24. At the time of his graduation, Adams planned to commit himself to practicing law. However, Adams' first job was as schoolmaster in Worcester, Massachusetts.([3])

Louisa May Alcott , the author of Little Women and other great works, was taught by her father. (uncited)

TRUE!

Alcott's early education had included lessons from the naturalist Henry David Thoreau but had chiefly been in the hands of her father. She also received some instruction from writers and educators such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller, who were all family friends. (Wikipedia)

Benjamin Banneker wrote the first almanac by a black man and helped survey Washington, D.C.. Banneker was taught to read and write by his grandmother in rural Maryland ([4])

PARTIALLY TRUE

Benjamin was taught to read and do simple arithmetic by his grandmother and by a Quaker schoolmaster, who changed his name to Banneker. Once he was old enough to help on his parents' farm, his formal education ended. (Wikipedia)

Molly, Banneker's grandmother, taught him and his brothers to read, using her Bible as a lesson book. There was no school in the valley for the boys to attend. Then one summer, a Quaker school teacher came to live in the valley. He set up a school for boys. Benjamin Bannaky attended this school. The schoolmaster changed the spelling of his name to Banneker. At school he learned to write and do simple arithmetic. ([5])

Clara Barton , pioneering nurse during the Civil War, founder of the American Association of the International Red Cross. Barton was homeschooled, and at 15 started teaching school. She later attended the Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York. ([6], [7])

TRUE!

... the youngest of 5 children in a middle-class family, Barton was educated at home, and at 15 started teaching school. ([8])

Dietrich Bonhoeffer,a Christian who spoke against Hitler and was martyred for doing so. (uncited)

TRUE!

His father, Karl Bonhoeffer, was a prominent German psychiatrist in Berlin; his mother, Paula, home-schooled the children. (Wikipedia)

Mary Breckinridge, pioneering American midwife and founder of Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service. Mary's father was a diplomat, and she was educated in America and abroad by private tutors. ([9]}

Weeeell!

Her education consisted primarily of private tutors in Washington D.C. and in St. Petersburg. She was taught by the most renowned tutors of the day. Her family traveled extensively so she was exposed to many different cultures and lifestyles.

Robert Burns Scotland's national poet. (uncited)

FALSE

But, following the established Scottish tradition, his education was not neglected. He attended a local school set up by his father and four neighbours, with the 18-year-old John Murdoch as teacher, and also received additional instruction in Latin, French and mathematics. ([10])

William Burnes recognised the importance of Education and together with other friends, contracted the services of a local teacher, John Murdoch. ([11])

Andrew Carnegie, the brilliant American businessman and philanthropist of the late 1800s, his father was a poor weaver and Andrew dropped out of elementary school[27] and had only five years of formal schooling. ([12]}

TRUE, but...

The only mention of education on CP's cited link is: One of the first things on his list was, 'Settle in Oxford and get a thorough education.' That is not surprising, because Andrew Carnegie had only five years of formal schooling. - (5 years of Scottish schooling !)

INACCURATE

Around age ten he left the farm where he was born and traveled through the Midwest doing odd jobs to support his education. Carver studied constantly and attended schools wherever possible, finally graduating from high school in Minneapolis, Kansas, in 1885. ([13])

Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857), one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, was taught by his father during an 11-year retreat to the country to escape the French Revolution. His father "wrote his own textbooks, several of them in the fluent verse of which he was master. Verse, he believed, made grammar, history and, above all, morals less repulsive to the juvenile mind." (E.T. Bell, "Men of Mathematics," 273 (1937).) ([14])

TRUE!

CP's cite: Home-schooled, he awed famous mathematicians at an early age. Cauchy received his early education from his father Louis François Cauchy (1760–1848), who held several minor public appointments and counted Lagrange and Laplace among his friends. Cauchy entered l'École Centrale du Panthéon in 1802, proceeded to the École Polytechnique in 1805, and to l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1807 ... (Wikipedia)

Pafnuty Chebyshev, one of the greatest Russian mathematicians, was homeschooled until college. ([15])

TRUE!

CP's Cite: "Pafnuty Lvovich's early education was at home where both his mother and his cousin Avdotia Kvintillianova Soukhareva were his teachers. From his mother he learnt the basic skills of reading and writing, while his cousin acted as a governess to the young boy and taught him French and arithmetic. ... In 1832, ...the family moved to Moscow. There he continued to be educated at home but he was now tutored in mathematics by P N Pogorelski who was considered the best elementary mathematics tutor in Moscow. Pogorelski was the author of some of the most popular elementary mathematics texts in Russia at the time and certainly inspired his pupil and gave him a solid mathematical education. Chebyshev was, therefore, well prepared for his study of the mathematical sciences when he entered Moscow University in 1837. "

"Education continued at home and his parents engaged teachers of excellent reputation, including (for mathematics and physics) P.N. Pogorelski, held to be one of the best teachers in Moscow and who had taught (for example) the writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev." (Wikipedia)

TRUE!

CP's cite: "Agatha was educated at home; her mother encouraged her to write from a very early age. At sixteen she was sent to school in Paris where she studied singing and piano."

Evariste Galois, among the brightest mathematicians ever and the founder of Galois groups and fields and Galois theory. "Until the age of twelve Galois had no teacher but his mother, Adelaide-Marie Demante."[40]

PARTIAL

"His mother, the daughter of a jurist, was a fluent reader of Latin and classical literature and she was for the first twelve years of her son's life responsible for his education." (Wikipedia)

"Galois was by this time at school. He had enrolled at the Lycée of Louis-le-Grand as a boarder in the 4 th class on 6 October 1823. Even during his first term there was a minor rebellion and 40 pupils were expelled from the school. Galois was not involved and during 1824-25 his school record is good and he received several prizes. However in 1826 Galois was asked to repeat the year because his work in rhetoric was not up to the required standard." ([17])

Tutored in the classics by a clerical uncle until he entered school at age 10. Left school by age 15.

TRUE (as far as it goes)

"Shaw went to the Wesleyan Connexional School, then moved to a private school near Dalkey, and then to Dublin's Central Model School, ending his formal education at the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School. At the age of 15 he started to work as a junior clerk." - The Literary Network

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