"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." Robert M. Hutchins.

Home education (or home schooling, as it is commonly called in the USA) is where parents elect to educate their children themselves rather than delegating that responsibility to a school.

We are long term, established home educators and have found the following websites and books particularly helpful. If home education is something in which you are currently engaged, or is a route you are considering taking with your children, then please read on…

 

Education Otherwise
www.education-otherwise.org
Education Otherwise is a UK-based membership organisation which provides support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, and for those who wish to uphold the freedom of families to take proper responsibility for the education of their children.

Freedom for children to grow

www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org

Education Otherwise's Campaign for Home Education website.

Free Range Education
www.free-range-education.org.uk
The home education site which grew from the book "Free Range Education - How Home Education Works" edited by Terri Dowty. Stacked with resources, links, information, qualified legal help and an email support service.

Fun Thinking

www.funthinking.co.uk

A great range of fun educational toys, games and activities to help make learning seriously fun.

Home Educating Children with Special Needs
www.he-special.org.uk
A support site and mailing list for those families who are home educating children with special educational needs.

Home Education
www.home-education.org.uk
This site contains over 1000 pages of resources for those who are, or who are contemplating, home education and is also home to the UK home education webring.
Home education is a long established legal right, currently exercised by around 90,000 (1.0%) UK children of compulsory educational age. This web site seeks to support those families and inform others as to their legal rights and responsibilities.

Human Scale Education
www.hse.org.uk
Human Scale Education is an educational charity promoting small schools and small classes because of the many educational benefits which small size can bring.

"The respect of parent's freedom to educate their children according to their vision of what education should be has been part of international human rights standards since their very emergence." Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights 8th April 1999.

• How Children Learn - John Holt
• Teach Your Own - John Holt
• Educating Children at Home - Alan Thomas
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook - Grace Llewellyn
• Doing it Their Way - Jan Fortune-Wood
• Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. - David Guterson
• Free Range Education. Edited by Terri Dowty
• One-to One. A guide to learning at home for 5-11 years olds. Gareth Lewis
• Unqualified Education. A guide to learning at home for 11-18 years olds. Gareth Lewis.