As the recipient of a home education I am no fan of the public school system. I will be educating my own children at home but this list and the accompanying paragraphs in an effort to encourage it are poor attempts at highlighting the benefits of non-government school. The point of education is not for you to memorize a bunch of facts, although the art and skill of memorization is lost today and is beneficial in spite of our googlable world. Instead, education should teach you HOW to think and reason which is why the modern school system fails on so many levels
Rote learning and drills are what will help an older child develop into a critical thinker. Doing higher math is way easier when you don’t need a calculator to divide or factor a 2 digit number. With history being able to understand why an event happened or how it changed the times requires you to recall who was in charge at that time and what major issues were present in that time period.
Knowing how to think and reason are fine qualities; however, that, alone does NOT make one "well educated"...knowing dates and lit and math skills etc. does!