Slow Schooling Chapter Six

On Being "Qualified" to Teach

Sunday, April 27, 2008

The TEST: Are You Competent to Homeschool?

“You don’t have to go to college to get a degree in education. (In fact, that degree might prove to be counterproductive because education programs prepare you to teach how the state wants you to teach.) You don’t have to have teachers in your family background. Nor is it necessary that you were once the teacher’s pet, or are an expert in clapping erasers. The test is rather simple to take. It should take only a few minutes, and then you will know.

The first thing you do is wait until it is late at night. Then, very quietly, go from room to room in your house. Peek in carefully, and see if you find any sleeping children. Then be sure that these are your own children. If there are wee ones in your home during the wee hours, and if they belong to you, you are competent to homeschool. The true Expert on education is the very One who gave you these children.”

from When You Rise Up by R.C. Sproul Jr.

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