Home School Hall of Fame
Famous people who were taught at home by their parents
Documented in the book, Home Schooling: The Right Choice, by Chris Klicka
Presidents George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Madison John Quincy Adams Abraham Lincoln William Henry Harrison Theodore F. Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson John Tyler Franklin D. Roosevelt | Artists John Singleton Copley Andrew Wyeth Rembrandt Peale Claude Monet Ansel Adams Philosopher Charles Montesquieu | Famous Women Abigail Adams Mercy Warren Martha Washington Florence Nightingale Phyllis Wheatley Agatha Christie Pearl S. Buck |
Governors Patrick Henry (VA) Charles Pickney III (SC) Richard D. Spaight (NC) William Livingston (NJ) Richard Bassett (DE) | Authors Mark Twain George Bernard Shaw Irving Berlin Charles Dickens C.S. Lewis | Generals "Stonewall" Jackson Robert E. Lee Douglas MacArthur George Patton |
US Senators of Congressmen William S. Johnson (CT) George Clymer (PA) John Francis Mercer (MD) William Blount (TN) William Few (GA) | Preachers and Missionaries John and Charles Wesley John Owen Jonathan Edwards William Carey Dwight L. Moody John Newton Hudson Taylor | Scientists, Economists, and Businessmen Blaise Pascal Booker T. Washington Thomas Edison Benjamin Franklin Andrew Carnegie John Stuart Mill |
College Presidents John Witherspoon – Princeton Timothy Dwight – Yale William S. Johnson – Columbia | Chief Justices of the US Supreme Court John Rutledge John Jay John Marshall | Composers Anton Bruckner Felix Mendelssohn Amadeus Mozart Francis Poulenc |
Pretty amazing that all these famous people were home schooled...........isn't it?? How many people do you recognize??
I already knew I liked Agatha Christie, and now I find out she was homeschooled?! Even better!!!
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