Memorable Quote

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.  They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.  Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.  Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself...  Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.  ~ Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's mentor

Famous people who have been homeschooled (at some point in their lives, based on a list provided online)  (Bottomline:  I am taking the list at the word of whoever comprised it!)

Joan of Arc
William Carey
Dwight L. Moody
Brigham Young
John & Charles Wesley
Hudson Taylor
John Newton
Jonathan Edwards
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Eli Whitney
The Wright Brothers
Irving Berlin
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeua Mozart
John Philip Sousa
Hans Christian Anderson
Margaret Atwood
Agatha Christie
Willa Cather
C. S. Lewis
Robert Frost
Charles Dickens
Walt Whitman
Beatrix Potter
Horace Mann
Booker T. Washington
John Witherspoon
Charlotte Mason
Louis Armstrong
Whoopi Goldberg
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Charlie Chaplin
LeAnne Rimes
Barlow Girl
Jonas Brothers
Andrew Carnegie
Dave Thomas
Colonel Sanders
Ansel Adams
Elizabeth Blackwell
Susan B. Anthony
Florence Nightingale
Jason Taylor
Frank Lloyd Wright
Martha Washington
Albert Schweitzer
Will Rogers

Famous people who homeschool their children
Will Smith
John Travolta & Kelly Preston
Robert Frost
Paul Overstreet
Michael Card

Be encouraged!  Have faith!  Trust God!  Keep your eyes fixed on the prize!