Why community is the quiet revolution in home education
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is to introduce people to one another.” — Howard Zinn
Home education is often seen as an act of quiet rebellion — a decision to step away from systems that no longer serve our children, and to build something smaller, slower, more human. But if Oscar Wilde reminds us that disobedience can...
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower – Alexander Den Heijer
So often, families come to home education after watching their child struggle to thrive in school. They’re told their child is behind, too distracted, too sensitive, too slow, too much. But what if the problem isn’t the child?
Oscar Wilde wrote: “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
It is a powerful line. And for many home educating families, it lands somewhere deep. Because many of us come to home ed through a quiet act of disobedience. Not the loud, reckless kind. Not...
