One thing in my life that is getting a little bit old is the reaction people have when I say I want to homeschool. "But homeschoolers are freaks!" they say. Gee, thanks. "But then your kids will have no social skills at all!" they also say. To this I feel like responding, "I was homeschooled, I am not socially awkward" ... but I don't think that I can honestly say that. However, I also do not think that homeschooling is what made me socially awkward. It is not like I was homeschooled the whole way, I started in eight grade and it was a part-time thing, I was at the actual high school every single day. I am just really bad at small talk, and I was just born that way. So, in defense of homeschool people everywhere, here is a list of people who were are Jewish ... just like you and me! David Lee roth, Lights the menorah, so do James Caan, Kirk Douglas, and the late Dinah Shore-ah. Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli? Bowser from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzerelli. Paul Newman’s half Jewish, Goldie Hawn’s half too, put them together, what a fine lookin’ Jew!
Ok. Adam Sandler quotes are stopping now. Did you know he has a daughter named Sadie? Yup, true story. Anyway, homeschooled people.
Beatrix Potter
Frank Lloyd Wright
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Whoopi Goldberg
Charlie Chaplin
Dakota Fanning
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Hillary Duff
Robert Frost
Mozart
Louisa May Alcott
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ansel Adams
Christopher Paolini
Erik Demaine
Venus and Serena Williams
Elijah Wood
Jonas Brothers
Raven Simone
Leann Rimes
Steve Irwin's children
Will Smith's kids
Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright
Leonardo da Vinci
John Marshall
Irving Berlin
Charles Dickens
Hans Christian Anderson
Joan of Arc
Brigham Young
John Newton
Florence Nightingale
Clara Barton
Charles Montesquieu
Taylor Swift
...just to name a few.
Next time you are sitting in your dorm room attempting to write a paper on family routines and rituals but find that you cannot come with anything good to say for the life of you, you should read Marc Olivier's biography. Quite possibly the most enjoyable thing I've ever read.
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