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Homeschooling is what many people are adopting as an alternative education for their children. As a definition homeschooling is exactly what the word implies, i.e. schooling at home. Other terms that qualify homeschooling are “home tutoring”, “self-taught”, “unschooled” and so on.

Initially stopping school was termed as un-schooling and it meant that the schooling (in this sense formal) has been stopped.  This term’s usage was extended to schooling at home simply for the lack of a better word. It was as late as 1977 that the term “homeschooling” had been coined for children who were taken out of school and then taught the same matter at home. The term in all probability had been coined to give a name to the type of schooling the children received. Hence those who were going to the normal school were going to school, and those who were taught at home were “going” to home school.

Form here, ‘home school’ phrase graduated into ‘homeschooling’ to indicate what the children were doing at home. Many consider that the term has come from John Holt who actually had advocated this type of schooling to a large extent. Holt had opined that kids would profit much more if they were looked after and taught by their own parents rather than a formal schools. The word Holt used to describe this  was first “un-schooling” indicating that children are stopped from going to school, such as unhinged and hinged would imply.

Today unschooling term is still there but it is not applied to the same meaning. Rather it means the process through which a child is taken out of the school; period. There is no syllabus, no matter, nothing taught to the child in terms of studies. On the other hand ‘homeschooling’ indicates that schooling is continued, but it done at home. That means the schooling has not stopped and that it does follow a fixed curriculum and has fixed targets. The only difference is that this is done at home, while formal schooling is done in normal schools. Now the terms are not used any more in an interchangeable form. Each one has its own separate and very distinct connotation.

Homeschooling today covers all if not more from the syllabus that is prescribed in the school. The only difference as it is mentioned in this article earlier, is that in homeschooling the parents are the teachers.

Why people prefer homeschooling to the formal schooling system. This is mainly because there are a lot of fallacies involved in the concept of the formal schooling. Teaching and learning have been projected as ‘work’ and drudgery. Children came to hate studies and the lessons that they have to learn from “5 PM to 7 PM”.   In the case of homeschooling, children recognize that learning takes place every moment and minute of the day without any regard to where you are, with whom you are. Hence, children started feeling curious about things and started asking questions to find out how things around us function. This is an invaluable lesson that they have learned right from their childhood.

From any angle you look, homeschooling is better. It is better because the parents atkes interest in the child and constantly interact with him or her; better because the child can set his/her own pace when she/he go to the next lesson. The important factor is that the child takes out from its mind that for learning only a school is adequate.  You can actually learn throughout your life and have Mother Nature as teachers. Besides for the structured learning, the parents (if they have the time) can take turns in answering the children and also nurture into them that fact that God is one.

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