National Review has a nice article arguing that home schooling is the only "authentically radical social movement of any real significance in the United States." The points it makes are good but, in my view, incomplete.
I believe homeschooling works better than other schooling because the ratio of adults to children is greater. Ceteris paribus, the larger portion of an adult's undivided attention a child gets, the more they learn.
What evidence of this do we have? The studies that show the fewer children there are present in a household, the more the children there learn.
We humans spent a million years learning at our parent's knee, and the last three hundred learning at a schoolroom desk. To which of these two do you suppose we are better adapted?
