The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible.
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.