Famous People Who Were Homeschooled

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on December 1, 2008 at 12:33 am


Quick: what do Agatha Christie, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson and Mozart got in common? They’re all homeschooled!

Here’s a neat quickie article at our pal mental_floss about 10 famous people who were homeschooled. For example:

1. Agatha Christie. Agatha was a painfully shy girl, so her mom homeschooled her even though her two older siblings attended private school. [...]

4. If Thomas Edison was around today, he would probably be diagnosed with ADD – he left public school after only three months because his mind wouldn’t stop wandering. His mom homeschooled him after that, and he credited her with the success of his education: “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.”

5. Ansel Adams was homeschooled at the age of 12 after his “wild laughter and undisguised contempt for the inept ramblings of his teachers” disrupted the classroom. His father took on his education from that point forward.

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11 comments to "Famous People Who Were Homeschooled"

  1. Jeffers
    December 1st, 2008 at 12:48 am

    That's great. Now, how about a list of some famous people who are ALIVE that were homeschooled?

  2. Johnny Cat
    December 1st, 2008 at 1:08 am

    Anybody care to share their awesome home-schooled adventures?

  3. raina_c
    December 1st, 2008 at 1:10 am

    How the schools are today, I don't blame people for home schooling their children, if they are able too.

  4. Sofar
    December 1st, 2008 at 3:19 am

    I was less home-schooled than unschooled. I got expelled in the seventh grade and my mother was so fed up with the public school system that she decided to homeschool me. But we never really got very far. At sixteen I got my G.E.D., now I'm trying to figure out how to get into and pay for college. Maybe I'll be an architect someday.

  5. Evilbeagle
    December 1st, 2008 at 5:18 am

    It takes a certain type of parent to successfully home school a child. I have a friend that home schools her three kids and they are doing well with it, but some people she knows need to be smacked for even trying.

    I'm glad that my parents sent me to school, though. I would have hated home schooling.

  6. Andrew Robbins
    December 1st, 2008 at 9:46 am

    Some of you home school types could use some more English lessons!

    Q:

    "What do Agatha Christie....Mozart got in common?"

    A:

    A proper command of the English language.

  7. Sadie
    December 1st, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    I was home-schooled in in childhood. My little brother has Asperger's. When we moved, we were enrolled in public elementary school. No offense if any aides or special education workers are reading this, but at my school, they sucked at their job. My little brother withdrew even further, terrified because he was bullied. We began home-schooling again, and it's been great. I started college at 16, and my little brother has improved splendidly, exceeding everyone's expectations. Home-schooling is a topic near and dear to my heart.

  8. Tallulah
    February 20th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    To Jeffers:
    Venus and Serena Williams, Dakota Fanning, Gloria Steinem, Evan Rachel Wood, Tim Tebow, Alan Alda, Yehudi Menuhin, HRH Queen Elizabeth II, and many, many more.
    See http://www.knowledgehouse.info/famous.html

  9. me!
    February 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    i love everybody because everybody is weird like this music

  10. Wayne Reif
    February 26th, 2009 at 9:22 pm

    GOT? GOT?? Did you go to public school???

  11. Samantha Been
    March 27th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    Well, to the one who posted the list of famous LIVE people who were home schooled....thanks, but I would like to see some who were home schooled are like famous live politicians or doctors or something of greater value that the Williams sisters and Dakota Fanning. No offense to them, but they were home schooled because they were playing sports all over the place or on a movie set...and we really have not seen any results of their academics impacting humanity or anything.........anyhow I was having trouble finding famous important contributors.


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