How will I educate my children | Joshua Steimle | TEDxHongKongED h educate make money

why home school your kids all the way up to the doctor level rather than mentioning Harvard or Princeton admission requirements for home school kids?

This man is saying the truth.

I purchased a tablet for my 2 years kid, with an open internet connection, and I opened Youtube for her.
When she became 5 years old, she was speaking English fluently with American accent, and know a lot about science and world nations.

Now she can not join the regular school in Somalia, because she has upper knowledge from the teachers.!
What to do ?.

Homeschool proponents are usually the best argument for putting your kids in school . They learn so much from each other , much more than what the teacher is teaching .

We homeschool using a Montessori/Reggio based philosophy along with outdoor learning/forest school. We mainly learn outside but also learn inside. And even though both of my sons have a disability, my 5 year old is also nearly fluent n ASL and is able to communicate most of his needs in Spanish as well. We study geography and culture, sciences, music, history, language, sewing, things that for some reason are not introduced at this age where it can be absorbed and manifested into part of their understanding of the world. 
we attend forest school , meetings with kids ages 3-12 with no toys; just play and imagination.

We only started homeschooling because because my son was not able to attend public school safely and efficiently due to his needs. But when providing him extensive information and concepts in fun play experiment based ways, letting him pick his activities or topics of interest, letting him and inspiring him to inquire and document his experiences using art and manipulatives, while allowing frequent sensory breaks for his SPD, he is thriving. The same child that I was told needed medication if he was ever going to do ok in school.
(He still may need medication one day, but it will not be for the comfort of a school system. It will be for HIS benefit)

i’m studying at school but i really want to be homeschooled. I live in Vietnam and our education system is obessed with academic achievement. We are cheating and do whatever we can to gain high scores, even our teachers help us ( they benefit from it, too). I feel like i’m going to a race but not school. I’m sick of that but still have to go to school because i want to enrich my knowledge and if i drop out of school, there’s no way for me to gain certificate for my knowledge

This is soooooo inspiring !

Stop defending Homeschooling! It should be banned.
My mother is extremely toxic and abusive. She ruined my education and kept me from knowing about the world. She never actually taught me anything and I didn't get a High school diploma because of her(she pulled me out of school at ninth grade and I never went back. She did this before when I was in third grade up till sixth.) So now I have to get my GED to work or go to college which I can't do because of Covid-19 out break. She also did the same for my half brothers. They left at third and fifth grade. I don't know how I'm going to survive the world when I was hardly allowed to leave my house and was never taught finance.

I wish I could homeschool. Unfortunately it's illegal in Greece too.

A Harvard professor would like to outlaw homeschool, much like H.

As wonderful as it sounds, home schooling is not for everyone. Some proponents seem to have forgotten to put one factor into consideration which is whether a home has the right emotional environment for children to live or learn. For many years, school had been an indispensable sanctuary for me for support, camaraderie, trust, social skills, learning, survival, and thrive. Home was a place where I dreaded going back to on a daily basis. As a teacher, I know some students cannot get the kind of support and opportunity at home and I try to help them excel. I respect and admire all those great parents (and siblings) who create the best learning environment for their kids, but for me it's Go School!

I'm homeschooled and hate it. If you get injured let your kids go to school. If they are isolated let them go to school. If they want to go to school, let them go to school.
You aren't a teacher and public school isn't a threat.

My child was placed under a delayed category because she couldn't speak like other 4 year olds in her class. She is 5 now and she's been homeschooled since her progress is off the charts and she gets to enjoy her days with family and active play without the stress of nightly homework. I work from home and I am blessed to have the opportunity to support her I'm this way.

we are going to homeschool our 9 year old daughter. the principal got furious and told us she would become very unsocial and it would be very very bad. why are people in teacher positions and can be so uneducated.

What people call socialization I call conformity. As Christians we are called not to conform to the world anyway. To me, public school is The way to conform society to think a certain way.

so Harvard equals world class education for this little fella, a good point to not watch this BS.

What a beautiful and positive presentation.

Wife and I plan to leave the USA and move to my village in Moldova. We plan to home school and live on the farm. Too expensive to live in the USA with only one working parent

Mr Steimle, I have no doubt that homeschooling is a good decision for your own children, but what about loving families where both parents are working flat out to make ends meet, or caring families where one or both parents have a chronic illness and struggle to meet their children's basic needs, or families where there is discord and school provides a welcome escape from the stifling atmosphere at home, or single working parent families, or any other family which doesn't have at least two adults on form and in harmony? And isn't that the vast majority of families? What about society as a whole when some children are home schooled and others aren't? Aren't you proposing, in effect, a two-tier education system, where children of successful, intelligent, coping parents are able to enjoy a superior education right from the start and thus be better placed to receive a higher education and pass their skills on to their own children and feel no responsibility towards anybody else's children? Isn't that kind of education exactly what the Western world has poured the last hundred years of time, effort and finance into overcoming? If we are capable people then don't we have a responsibility towards children that extends beyond our own front door? These are the questions I hoped to find answers to in your talk, but you didn't even address them. I would be very grateful if you or anybody else with a constructive suggestion would answer my comment and take it seriously. Thank you in advance.

Thank you for this.

I didn’t know that about Ben Swan!

I worked in the public schools for 10 years and I’m now homeschooling my own children. I recognized that the system was so messed up and not ideal for children and I wanted more for them! I taught children with learning disabilities & the biggest irony was that they had (by law) an “Individualized Education Plan” but were expected to pass the same standardized tests. It broke my heart to see them struggle to learn unnecessary things & memorize facts they had no meaning. My younger ones were so eager to learn to read then by 4th grade their desire to learn dwindles & it turns into trying to motivate them.