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THE BEST EDUCATION IS DONE AT HOME…..BUT WHAT DO HOME-SCHOOLERS READ?

Well, it varies a bit according to the political commitments of the parents…but there are remarkable similarities, as well.

Though there is plenty of crossover, Wilder and Henty appeal to slightly different crowds. Liberals and secularists may be wary of Henty’s God-talk and manlier-than-thou chivalry, while the most religious Christians would consider Wilder insufficiently pious. But what’s more interesting is what these two authors—and their readerships—have in common: a preference for long books, often parts of a series, consumed with a leisure that public-school curricula don’t allow; an emphasis on narratives, which children like, divorced from contemporary politics, which surely can wait; and a powerful sense that children are major players in the world, the kind of people, perhaps, who deserve better than large classrooms and who may grow up more likely to write books than to be told which ones to read.

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