I have a 36 year old daughter who would have NEVER won a spelling bee...but she has her own business. She excells at marketing and has made one to two million dollars annnually for the past eight years.
She went to a public school, and when she was in seventh grade, she told her friends consistently that she would be a millionaire some day.
Success has nothing to do with home schooling, if you ask me. Could it be the will?
“Success has nothing to do with home schooling, if you ask me. Could it be the will?”
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If she had been homeschooled, she may have been making a million a year at age 11.
But,,,of course, it is impossible to do a double blind study on individual children.
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Success has everything to do homeschooling!
Homeschooling is very, very efficient. My own kids rarely spent more than 2 hours a day with their formal studies. The remainder of the day was spent playing and developing their interests. Even with that minimal amount of formal work, they were in college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13, and two graduated with B.S. degrees in math at the age of 18.
This spelling bee champion is able to do all that he does, because he is not wasting time riding buses, doing mindless homework, siting in classes waiting for others to catch up, standing in lines, walking two by two, or being distracted by other misbehaving students.
Certainly. There are Harvard grads flipping burgers while someone with a high school diploma signs the checks of the guy who signs the checks of the guy who signs the checks of the guy who signs the Harvard grad's checks.
Individual determination and discipline are usually the key, both in school and after graduation -- and those values are taught at home. Teaching basic values in schools should be a reinforcement of those home lessons; when the parents are absent or simply no good, some sort of education is better than none, but not by much.
Worth note is that there is no single definition of "success." I'm not a millionaire, and probably never will be -- but that was never my goal. Not that I'd turn down a million bucks if it was offered, of course.
Nah, it's just "winning life's lottery!" </sarcasm>People who emigrate from their home countries and immigrate to America tend very strongly toward success, at least as success is defined in their home country. And they succeed for the reason that they can't really go home until they do, without risk of ridicule.
And that can happen inside the country, too - my brother-in-law dropped out of school to work for his father. His father agreed to let him - but warned him, "You'll never wear a white shirt." So by making that decision, he was deciding that he had to succeed in his career. And he did.
By and large, the people who become millionaires are people who, in their own minds, have to. The rest of us don't try hard enough. Simple as that.
“Could it be the will?”
That’s probably most of it, but why hobble kids with a third rate education? Sure, they might overcome it. But why not give them the best tools available to start with?
And also ask yourself: where are kids most likely to pick up the character values and the drive necessary to succeed? From the government schools, or from mom and dad?