Category talk:Home schooled people
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[edit] Is this really a good category?
I just created this category, but I must say I'm having second thoughts now. There are many people in history who have been educated at home by private teachers - should they be included? And what about all those that lived before there even were formal school systems? Before I add other articles to this category, I'll therefore wait and see what others think. Common Man 01:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I suppose there may be some merit to this category, but as you mentioned, only so many centuries of people have received formal schooling. I'd recommend at least adding more than Thomas Edison, to avoid deletion. Waffletime 04:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your suggestion. The article homeschooling lists "A few famous figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Woodrow Wilson might be considered to have been home-educated, as they underwent little formal education[citations needed]", so it would be easy for proponents of this category to add a few articles. However, I don't have an interest in pushing a decision in either direction. My sole reason for creating the category was that I thought Wikipedia would benefit from it. If people decide that it doesn't, then I'm fine with that. Or is there a risk of unreflected deletion, just based on the number of assigned articles? Common Man 05:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- This is a good category. Categorizing notable homeschooled men and women is one way to debunk common stereotypes about homeschooling. I'd added Lorado Taft-- there were schools available where and when he lived and his parents had the means to send him to private school but chose to homeschool. I note that not all entries are what I call positive examples (Prussian Blue for instance) but they're still notable. Jaguara 01:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
