In the video Voddie Bauchman gives a good description of public schools in his call to march out of them. “The first place we need to march is right out the front door of those Christ-dishonoring, academically inferior, soul-killing government indoctrination centers.”

Others in the film include Bruce Shortt, author of “The Harsh Truth About Public Schools” and E. Ray Moore of ExodusMandate.org

From the HSLDA site you’ll find links to all 50 states and 5 U.S. territories that will give you specific requirements for homeschooling in your state.

From each state page you can view the requirements (in a PDF document) as well as a page with information about the state homeschool association and various county homeschool groups. Your state association will be a valuable resource in helping you begin homeschooling. You should be able to take your children out of the public schools at any grade and at any time during the school year, just make sure you have followed all the correct legal procedures before removing them from the school.

Homeschooling is a modern term but it is a form of education that has been around for centuries. In fact, most children were taught at home until the push for public schools began in the 1830s-1840s. If you look at references to education before there was a public school system, you will see phrases such as “tutored at home,” “self-taught,” or “no formal education,” referring to individuals we might now call homeschooled.

My goal is to be as thorough and as accurate as possible. I would like to clarify that not everyone on the following list was homeschooled exclusively, but homeschooling was definitely a significant factor in their education at one time or another.

Constitutional Convention Delegates

• Richard Basseti – Governor of Delaware
• William Blount – U.S. Senator
• George Clymer – U.S. Representative
• William Few – U.S. Senator
• Benjamin Franklin – Inventor and Statesman
• Alexander Hamilton – Lawyer and Economist
• William Houston – Lawyer
• William S. Johnson – Columbia College President
• William Livingston – Governor of New Jersey
• James Madison – 4th President of the U.S.
• George Mason – Justice of Virginia County Court
• John Francis Mercer – U.S. Representative
• Charles Pickney III – Governor of S. Carolina
• John Rutledge – Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court
• Richard D. Spaight – Governor of North Carolina
• George Washington – 1st President of the U.S.
• John Witherspoon – President of Princeton
• George Wythe – Justice of Virginia High Court

Presidents

• John Adams
• John Quincy Adams
• Grover Cleveland
• Jefferson Davis (the only president of the short-lived Confederate States of America)
• James Garfield
• William Henry Harrison
• Andrew Jackson
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• James Madison
• James Polk
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• John Tyler
• George Washington
• Woodrow Wilson

Statesmen

• Henry Fountain Ashurst
• William Jennings Bryan
• Winston Churchill
• Henry Clay
• John Dickinson
• Pierre du Pont
• Benjamin Franklin
• Patrick Henry
• William Penn
• Daniel Webster

Military Officers

• John Barry – Senior Navy Officer
• George Rogers Clark – Revolutionary War hero
• Nathanael Greene – Revolutionary War hero
• Nathan Hale – Revolutionary War hero
• Stonewall Jackson – Civil War General
• John Paul Jones – Father of the American Navy
• Robert E. Lee – Civil War General
• Douglas MacArthur – U.S. General
• George Patton – U.S. General
• Matthew Perry – U.S. Naval Officer
• John Pershing – U.S. General
• David Dixon Porter – Civil War Admiral
• Joseph Bradley Varnum – Revolutionary War hero

U.S. Supreme Court Judges

• Charles Evans Hughes
• John Jay
• John Marshall
• John Rutledge
• Sandra Day O’Connor

Religious Leaders

• Joan of Arc
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• William Carey
• Jonathan Edwards
• Philipp Melancthon
• Dwight L. Moody
• John Newton
• John Owen
• Hudson Taylor
• John & Charles Wesley
• Brigham Young

Explorers

• William Clark – Lewis & Clark Expedition
• Meriwether Lewis – Lewis & Clark Expedition
• John Wesley Powell – Colorado River Expedition
• Sir Ernest Shackleton – Antarctic Expedition

Scientists

• Wilson A. Bentley – “The Snowflake Man”
• George Washington Carver – agricultural research
• Pierre Curie – discovered radium
• Albert Einstein – theoretical physicist
• Paul Erdos – Hungarian mathematician
• Michael Faraday – electrochemist
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – French physicist
• Oliver Heaviside – electromagnetism researcher
• T.H. Huxley – biologist, zoologist, Darwinist
• Ruth Lawrence – mathematician
• Gilbert Newton Lewis – physical chemist
• Ada Lovelace – founder of scientific computing
• Benoit Mandelbrot – pioneer in fractal geometry
• Blaise Pascal – French mathematician
• Joseph Priestley – father of modern chemistry
• Samuel C. C. Ting – Chinese American physicist
• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky – Russian rocket scientist

Inventors

• Alexander Graham Bell – invented the telephone
• John Moses Browning – firearms inventor/designer
• Peter Cooper – built the first modern skyscraper, the first commercial locomotive, and patented the first gelatin dessert which was later named Jell-O
• Thomas Edison – invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and electric light bulb
• Benjamin Franklin – invented the lightning rod
• Elias Howe – invented sewing machine
• William Lear – airplane creator
• Cyrus McCormick – invented grain reaper
• Guglielmo Marconi – developed radio
• Eli Whitney – invented the cotton gin
• Sir Frank Whittle – invented turbo jet engine
• Orville and Wilbur Wright – brothers who built the first successful airplane

Artists

• William Blake – painter, engraver, poet
• John Singleton Copley – American Colonial painter
• Evelyn De Morgan – Pre-Raphaelite painter
• Christian Grew – American Painter
• Donal Hord – San Diego sculptor
• Akiane Kramarik- 10-year-old art and poetry prodigy
• Claude Monet – French Impressionist
• Grandma Moses – American folk artist
• Charles Willson Peale – American portrait artist
• Lu Pinchang – ceramic sculptor
• Leonardo da Vinci – Renaissance artist, sculptor
• Andrew Wyeth – American realist painter
• Jamie Wyeth – American realist painter

Composers

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Baroque
• Irving Berlin – Patriotic
• Anton Bruckner – Symphonies
• Noel Coward – Musicals
• Felix Mendelssohn – Romantic
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Classical
• John Porcaro – Experimental
• Francis Poulenc – Choral
• John Philip Sousa – “March King”

Writers

• Louisa May Alcott – author of Little Women
• Hans Christian Anderson – fairy tale writer
• Margaret Atwood – Canadian novelist, poet
• Fawn M. Brodie – biographer
• Pearl S. Buck – Nobel prize-winning author
• William F. Buckley, Jr. – conservative writer
• Willa Cather – American novelist
• Agatha Christie – mystery author
• Samuel Clemens – a.k.a. Mark Twain
• Charles Dickens – British novelist
• Robert Frost – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman – early feminist writer
• Alex Haley – African-American novelist
• Sharlot Hall – poet, writer, Arizona historian
• Joshua Harris- pastor and author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye
• Bret Harte – frontier California journalist
• L. Ron Hubbard – science fiction writer
• Helen Keller – blind and deaf author and lecturer
• Rose Wilder Lane – journalist, ghostwriter, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• C.S. Lewis – Christian writer and apologist
• Amy Lowell – Modernist poet
• Gabriela Mistral – Nobel-prize winning Latin American poet
• Sean O’Casey – Irish author
• Thomas Paine – political writer during the American Revolution, author of Common Sense
• Christopher Paolini – teen author of Eragon
• Isabel Paterson – conservative political author
• Beatrix Potter – author of Peter Rabbit Tales
• Jedediah Purdy – author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
• Kenneth Rexroth – poet, translator, critical essayist
• Carl Sandburg – American poet
• George Bernard Shaw – Irish-born playwright
• Mattie J. T. Stepanek – 11-year-old author of Heartsongs
• Rosemary Sutcliff – historical novels for children
• Rabindranath Tagore – Bengali poet, essayist, dramatist, songwriter
• Leo Tolstoy – Russian writer
• Mercy Warren – American Revolution eyewitness
• Phillis Wheatley – African-American poet
• Walt Whitman – American poet
• Laura Ingalls Wilder – children’s book author
• Virginia Woolf – English novelist

Educators

• Amos Bronson Alcott – innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott
• Catharine Beecher – co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary
• Jill Ker Conway – first woman president of Smith College
• Erik Demaine – associate professor of Computer Science at MIT
• Timothy Dwight – President of Yale University
• William Samuel Johnson – President of Columbia College
• Horace Mann – “Father of the American Common School”
• Charlotte Mason – Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education
• Joyce Reed – Associate Dean of the College, Brown University
• Fred Terman – President of Stanford University
• Frank Vandiver – President of Texas A&M University
• Booker T. Washington – teacher and founder of Tuskegee Institute
• Noah Webster – “Father of American Christian Education”
• John Witherspoon – President of Princeton University

Medical Practitioners

• Clara Barton – started the Red Cross
• Elizabeth Blackwell – first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree
• Florence Nightingale – Nurse
• Susan La Flesche Picotte – first American Indian woman physician
• Albert Schweitzer – Physician
• Mary Walker – Civil War physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor

Business Entrepreneurs

• Andrew Carnegie – wealthy steel industrialist
• Amadeo Giannini – Bank of America’s founder
• Horace Greeley – New York Tribune founder
• Soichiro Honda – creator of the Honda automobile company
• Peter Kindersley – book illustrator and publisher
• Ray Kroc – founder of McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain
• Jimmy Lai – newspaper publisher; founder of Giordano International
• Dr. Orison Swett Marden – founder, Success magazine
• Adolph Ochs – New York Times founder
• Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize
• Colonel Harland Sanders – started Kentucky Fried Chicken
• Dave Thomas – founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain

Performing Artists (Actors and Musicians)

• Alan Alda – actor, screenwriter, producer
• Louis Armstrong – king of jazz
• BarlowGirl – Lauren, Alyssa, and Rebecca Barlow
• Spencer Breslin – actor
• Chris Brown – R&B singer, dancer, actor
• The 5 Browns – five siblings who play classical music on five grand pianos
• Aaron Carter – Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
• Charlie Chaplin – actor
• Cherryholmes – Bluegrass family band
• Erika Christensen – actress
• Hilary Duff – actress, singer
• Dakota Fanning – actress
• Whoopi Goldberg – actress
• Alexander Gould – actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo
• Hilary Hahn – classical violin virtuoso
• Hanson – sibling singing group
• Toby Hemingway – British actor known for his role as Reid Garwin in “The Covenant”
• Jennifer Love Hewitt – actress
• Hume brothers – Jon, Peter, and Dann of the Evermore alternative rock band from New Zealand
• Tiffany Jo – Arizona yodeling star
• Jonas Brothers – Kevin, Joe, and Nick
• Nicole Jung – member of Korean girl group KARA
• Josh Layne – harp musician
• Lindsay Lohan – actress and singer
• Scott MacIntyre – visually impaired pianist
• Pat McMahon – television personality
• Jena Malone – actress
• Yehudi Menuhin – child prodigy violinist
• Alyson “Aly” Michalka and Amanda Joy “AJ” Michalka – sister singing duo and actresses
• Moffatts – Canadian version of Hanson
• Trevor Morgan – American actor
• Frankie Muniz – actor
• Hayden Panettiere – actress best known for her role as Claire Bennet in Heroes and in “Remember the Titans”
• Adam Paskowitz – lead singer, The Flys
• LeAnne Rimes – teen-prodigy country music star
• Rebecca St. James – contemporary Christian recording artist
• Lindsey Shaw – actress known for her role as Jennifer Mosely on “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”
• Jordin Sparks – singer, actress, model and American Idol winner
• Kristen Stewart – actress
• Jeremy Sumpter – actor
• Raven Symone – actress and singer best known for her role on “That’s So Raven”
• Maria von Trapp – one of the Von Trapp Family Singers, the third child of Captain von Trapp
• Sofia Vassilieva – actress
• Kaitlyn Weaver – ice dancer
• Devon Werkheiser – actor known for the role Ned Bigby on “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”
• Elijah Wood – actor best known as Frodo in the The Lord of the Rings
• Evan Rachel Wood – actress

Athletes

• Mike Beasley – basketball player
• Tanith Belbin – figure skating champion
• David Boudia – Olympic diver
• Chad Compton – surfer
• Alexa Glatch – tennis player
• Katie Hoff – Olympic swimmer
• Madison and Keiffer Hubbell – sibling ice dancers
• Todd Lodwick – U.S. ski team member
• Tamara McKinney – World Cup skier
• Bode Miller – American alpine skier
• Asia Muhammed – tennis player
• Carly Patterson – Olympic gymnast
• Ariel Rittenhouse – Olympic diver
• Maria Sharapova – tennis player
• Shayna Syken – figure skater
• Jason Taylor – NFL football player
• Timothy “Tim” Tebow – football player, Heisman Trophy winner
• Sam Warren – basketball player
• Venus and Serena Williams – tennis star sisters

Others

• Abigail Adams – wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams
• Ansel Adams – photographer
• Susan B. Anthony – women’s rights leader
• John James Audubon – ornithologist and artist
• Alyssa Buecker – director, Milbo Productions
• John Burroughs – naturalist
• Jennie Chancey – historical costumer
• Davy Crockett – frontiersman
• Edward Curtis – photographer
• Robin Lee Graham – youngest person to sail around the world at age 16
• Alex and Brett Harris – twin teen writers and conference speakers for “The Rebelution,” a Christian ministry/youth organization
• Eric Hoffer – social philosopher
• Sam Houston – lawyer; first leader of Texas
• Abraham Kuyper – Dutch politician, journalist
• Mary Leakey – fossil hunter
• Charles Fletcher Lummis – journalist, historian, photographer, founder of the Southwest Society
• Harriet Martineau – first woman sociologist
• Margaret Mead – cultural anthropologist
• John Stuart Mill – free-market Economist
• Charles Louis Montesquieu – philosopher
• John Muir – naturalist
• Raymond Parks – Civil Rights activist, husband of Rosa Parks
• Sofia, Susan, and Judit Polgar – chess masters
• Bill Ridell – Newspaperman
• Will Rogers – Humorist
• Eleanor Roosevelt – wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Bertrand Russell – Logician
• Drew Ryun – co-founder of Generation Joshua, director of Jim Ryun Running Camp
• Ned Ryun – co-founder of Generation Joshua, president of American Majority
• Deborah Sampson – female soldier in the American Revolution
• Emerson Spartz – 12-year-old internet entrepreneur (MuggleNet)
• Herbert Spencer – philosopher, sociologist
• Gloria Steinem – founder of Ms. magazine
• Timmy Teepell – chief of staff for Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
• Lester Frank Ward – Father of American Sociology
• Martha Washington – wife of George Washington
• Frances E. C. Willard – educator, temperance leader, and suffragist
• Frank Lloyd Wright – architect
• John Lloyd Wright – architect, toy designer, inventor of Lincoln Logs
• Sho Yano – gifted child prodigy
• Elijah ben Solomon Zalman – Jewish scholar

This list was compiled by Compiled by Teri Ann Berg Olsen, author of “Learning for Life: Educational Words of Wisdom”
http://www.knowledgehouse.info