Brainy Child

Hi Janet,
Our world is full great personalities and historical people of extreme brilliance and talent. Some of them have been the foremost nation builders and extraordinary leaders, while others are men of letters, great musicians and exemplary scientists. Our world would not have been the same without notable contributions from these great people.
Now, what is common with these legendary personalities?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Possibly the greatest ever composer of classical music

George Bernard Shaw – One of the greatest play writers

Franklin D. Roosevelt – A president with great character and substance

Thomas Edison – The greatest inventor in the history of mankind

Albert Einstein – The most brilliant human ever

Bobby Fischer – A legendary chess grandmaster and a great world champion

You will be extremely surprised to know that all these great people have one distinctively common thing among them – that they were all the significant products of home-schooling! Successful home-schooled personalities like these come in many flavors and styles. The practice of home-schooling has given us some of the most famous personalities the world has ever seen!
Today’s schools are extremely competitive, too much crowded and at times too insipid for some of our children. The perceived squeezing ambience of such schools may impact and influence some of our children in a negative and discouraging manner, eventually resulting in reduced and disappointing academic and classroom performance. Mind you, such children are not at all bad in their abilities to study and score better grades and ranks. It may just that they do not find the school environment encouraging and positive. Most of our gifted children often find a typical, conventional classroom environment too boring and ordinary.
Parents may need to take a serious note of these instances and provide their children an alternative mode of education in an encouraging and stimulating environment that eventually makes them classroom-enabled and school-compliant. Parents have a number of choices in front of them. Alternative approaches to traditional classroom have been here since hundreds of years and some of the examples of famous people who underwent alternative home schooling are given above.
Home schooling is a credible and alternative approach to a traditional and truly academic styled classroom and it caters to those children, who often find traditional classes very discouraging and incompatible to their taste and preferences. There are a number of other approaches that can be considered by parents. However, home schooling seems to be the most desired option by a number of parents around the world. Though expensive, home schooling offers the benefit of teaching your children in a compatible and loving ambience that stresses on one-to-one type of student-teacher relationship. As a parent, you can study and understand the finer aspects of alternative education and how it can influence your children in a positive manner. This issue of newsletter intends to provide you some basic fundamentals of alternative approaches to education and how one can benefit from it. All the best!
Thought for today:
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” – Anonymous

Best Regards,
Andrew Loh
Andrew Loh
Publisher & Editor, BrainyZine

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