A Word About Home Schooling

Yes, I know this is a well discussed topic, but let me add a a few word from the plural marriage family perspective.

It is well known that there is nothing natural about sticking a bunch of kids of the same age into a classroom for half the day every day and let them educate each other, basically. School has it wrong, and we all know it. Peer pressure abounds, children are under bad influences... A more artificial environment is difficult to imagine.

Then again, if you are living in a monogamous marriage and home school, your children are taught with only a few "classmates", even if you have 8, 9, 10 children. Imagine, however, the multi-generational family with lots and lots of children of all ages, who grow up together, who learn together, and who have more than one teacher as all the adults of the multi-generational and polygynous family have a share in the home schooling of the young ones. Grandpa might teach the boys woodwork, grandma will show the girls how to knit, alongside a classical educational and the inevitable gardening lessons, of course, Father reads Scripture after dinner and teaches the children how to discern properly, and and and...

Home schooling takes place all day long and no matter who the children are with. The multi-generational, polynynous family is the ideal place for a child to grow up and learn, ideal because every child will have many siblings to be best friends with, and there are many adults around to teach the young ones what they need to live a happy life by God's standard.