I don't think there needs to be a "root cause" of homeschooling, as it is the default catechetical mode of a family. School/religious education are the deviation from the anthropological and historical norm, not home education.
I don't think there needs to be a "root cause" of homeschooling, as it is the default catechetical mode of a family. School/religious education are the deviation from the anthropological and historical norm, not home education.
I was talking to a friend about this very point today. So many times, discussions about education models are influenced by the erroneous idea that majority-day classroom models are the norm, when in the course of history at large, in the course of the history of the Church, and in the history of the United States, majority-day classroom setting education is very new.
I don't think there needs to be a "root cause" of homeschooling, as it is the default catechetical mode of a family. School/religious education are the deviation from the anthropological and historical norm, not home education.
(my kids go to school)
Exactly this!
I was talking to a friend about this very point today. So many times, discussions about education models are influenced by the erroneous idea that majority-day classroom models are the norm, when in the course of history at large, in the course of the history of the Church, and in the history of the United States, majority-day classroom setting education is very new.