Humanizing Education – A Homeschooling Perspective

When you consider the way public schools are laid out, you can tell there is no humanistic approach to the education provided. Children need to be taught with love, and caring. There is no humanization involved in public school education. By homeschooling your child, you are able to bring the human nature back to your child's education and their learning experience becomes more valuable.

Benefits to Students

Homeschooling is beneficial in many ways. It is more time efficient, and it provides more one-on-one knowledge. A child can learn a concept in less time when they are taught one-on-one than they can in a traditional classroom. It also allows children to be treated as an individual human, and not as a group, which can be detrimental to their education in the end.

Homeschooling also allows for lessons to be modified to meet the child's individual needs. Every human being learns in a different way. Therefore, they should be taught as an individual, unique human being. Homeschooling has been  proven to provide better performance in academics and research has concluded that homeschooled children perform much higher on achievement tests.

Children who are homeschooled also develop a higher level of happiness in their adult life, and they achieve more financially than children who attend public school.

Society Sees the Benefits

Even though some people are confused by why a person would want to homeschool their child. When they read the statistics on how homeschooled children perform higher on standardized tests, they see the benefits. Society sees the benefits of homeschooling in many different ways. Since children are taught using a more humanistic manner, they are more active in improving society when they become adults.

Adults who were homeschooled as children understand humanistic values. They are more active in the community and they are 71% more likely to to become a part of ongoing, voluntary community services. They paticipate in a all types of services, from volunteering with schools, neighborhoods, or coaching sports teams.

Family Benefits

Typically the members of a family spend a lot of time away from one another. However, homeschooled children are able to build better relationships with their parents and their siblings. The family unit is stronger, and children learn a better concept of how a family should work.

Homeschooled children are also able to gain valuable life skills while they are being educated, which is something public schools neglect due to the number of children they have to focus on. Homeschooling also makes your schedule more flexible. If you have doctor's appointments or need to travel, your child does not have to miss their lessons, or be counted absent.

Parents have better control over what their children learn on a daily basis. This means that their child can excel past other children their age, and at times they can reach the point of being one or more grade levels ahead of their peers.

Less Behavioral Problems

Homeschooling allows parents to instill positive behaviors in their child, and avoid behavioral problems that can develop when you have several hundred children in a building. Children can be taught a stronger sense of being respectful, being kind, and helping others.

While the benefits of homeschooling a child may look small from the outside, when you see the changes in your child's behavior, and you see that you are raising a responsible, respectful, intelligent child, you feel an instant sense of pride. This is why humanizing education through homeschooling is so important for your child, and yourself.