On June 1st, a project was finished and the twelfth grade accomplished. After completing
The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell,
75 Bible Questions Your Instructors Pray You Won't Ask by Gary North, and multiple other projects, my parents signed off on my certificate of graduation. Homeschooling wasn't always easy, to the contrary, it challenged me in ways the public system never could. Take personal responsibility for instance. As I progressed to higher levels, more subjects and assignments were left to me to do on my own until I was responsible enough to manage almost everything but the grading of tests, and even that I could have done on my own as I never saw anything to gain by cheating. A year ago, I had accomplished all I needed to graduate grade 12 but I was not ready at 17 to start full time work or to move on to College or University. So my parents, primarily my Dad, came up with the criteria for a blogging project that would heighten my writing skills while teaching me about freedom, corruption, government, apologetics, and so much more. The key to becoming more than just a good writer is to write. Write, write, write, and write some more. The contract between my early posts and my last ones are proof enough that the more one writes, the more fluent they become in the art. The more one learns, the better they are at learning. If we could just break away from the masses and the ideals most people have for what an education should look like, there would be an outbreak of learning, and an epidemic of genius.
"I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves."
- John Taylor Gatto
