Vehige: Orson Scott Card, Public Education, and Homeschooling

In the first part of "Uncle Orson Reviews Everything, School Experts, Poitier, Prions, and Guacamole," Orson Scott Card goes off on another rant against the public school system, and in the middle of it, makes a comment about homeschooling:

Do you know what I find, as a college teacher? That the best writers, the best thinkers, the most broadly educated among my students are the ones who were home-schooled.

Think about that. And then think about this: Most of those home-schooled kids get their schooling in a few hours a day. By noon, most of them are done. Then they have time to live together with their families. To read or play on their own. To have a childhood.

Yep, he's absolutely right. It's one of the reasons why I home school my kids, to let them have a childhood.