Will Smith says he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith homeschool their children because the most valuable things he learned he didn’t get from school. “The date of the Boston Tea Party does not matter,” Smith told Reader’s Digest. “I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.”

Actually, I'm not surprised at all. All power to them! Godspeed!! That's an awesome presence in the land of Hollywood. - Brandi

Let me ramble about a little here... When we homeschooled I'm afraid we had no energy to make the subjects come alive. It took all our energies to keep the students awake and look alive. Any cases where they "caught" the excitement of learning were purely the result of letting them explore whatever interested them individually, mostly outside of the classroom setting. (An exception here would be the science fairs in elementary school.) We took them to the library, kept the TV off (actually we may not have had one, I don't recall), and spent a lot of time playing with them. One exception to the monotony of our approach might have been a brief foray into number theory. One did go on a little in mathematics. The other, the quintessential young scientist (he nearly electrocuted his younger brother) went on in physics. A third is a musician computer analyst and a fourth is an educator, conservationist, financial wizard, lobbyist, and I don't know what else. But everyone is deeply into computers. Old Sigma

Power and kudos to you for successfully homeschooling. I homeschooled two hyperactive grandsons a few years. My daughter-in-law very successfully homeschools my 4th grade granddaughter, without the danger of having drugs offered to her at school and without the free condoms. Talk about a QUALITY education, little Ana is getting one. I am very much FOR homeschooling.

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