adam on Nostr: In 2025, my wife and I decided to start homeschooling. That decision came with a lot ...

In 2025, my wife and I decided to start homeschooling.

That decision came with a lot of opinions.
“Won’t they miss out socially?” “What about structure, standards, college?”

What most people don’t realize is that the traditional education system isn’t optimized for learning, it’s optimized for scale, compliance, and corporate hell.
Homeschooling flips that.

Kids learn faster because they’re not dragged at the pace of the slowest in the classroom and because curiosity isn’t punished. They develop agency because learning becomes something they own, not something done to them.

There’s more time for deep focus, more room for real-world skills. More space for values, faith, and critical thinking to actually take place.
Education shouldn’t be about memorizing answers, it should be about learning how to think.

The intentionality we have with homeschooling gives our kids an edge.
And in a world that increasingly rewards independent thinkers, that matters more than ever.