"(In the millennium) the home will be the only media of teaching children."
- PRESIDENT ALVIN R. DYER, BYU, 1969
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"In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools --
and it's becoming almost generally true -- it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools."
- PRESIDENT BOYD K. PACKER, BYU, 1996
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Two Kingdoms

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THE PROTECTED YEARS
birth - 8 years

THE EXPLORING YEARS
8 - 12 years


MUSIC

PRESCHOOL

READING

SPELLING

WRITING

MATH

GRAMMAR

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

HISTORY

SCIENCE

FINE ARTS

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP

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Every family homeschools, full time or part time.
We support all family education and all homeschooling.
We encourage parents to teach their children to read at home,
to delay classroom enrollment as long as possible,
and to be aware of the many educational options now available.
We follow the Lord's Learning Plan as it is being revealed to the Church
at breathtaking speed by living prophets.

Learning and teaching, following and leading are the substance of human life. Remove these functions and very little is left. Recognizing and consciously responding to the significance of these four functions is the most important contribution a parent makes in the developing lives of their children-be it good, bad, or indifferent. Beyond providing birth and sustaining life, the central core of human existence is learning and teaching, and following and leading. Every individual forms their own pattern of pursuing these functions. The importance of the pattern we embrace is mirrored in the lives we live. It is inescapable; the process extends beyond the human family and appears in nature itself. Consider two examples-(a) a covey of quail and (b) trees. more

The Lighted Path:
LDS Church Programs Light the Way for Raising Well-Educated, Homeschooled Disciples
Homeschoolers have a target. It was established in 1969 when BYU Professor Neil Flinders set up a "long distance" phone conference for his graduate students in Provo, Utah with Alvin R. Dyer of the First Presidency in Salt Lake City. The students had prepared a list of questions about the future of education. In answer to one of the questions, President Dyer responded, "I think that by the end of the millennium, for those who will occupy the celestial kingdom, the home will be the only medium of teaching children. more

I was sitting on the floor with my oldest daughter the first time she read a word. She was sooooo proud of herself! I called my husband, who was at work at the time, bawling my eyes out because I got to be there to see the glow on her face when she knew she could read. I still get tears just remembering how magical that moment was. Since then there have been several amazing moments I am glad I didn't give away to a professional teacher. I get to be the one to see my kids with the "light bulb" moments as they learn. - Pam Opp,UT more

Reed Benson, son of President Ezra Taft Benson, spoke at our 1994 conference just a few days after the death of his father. It was a "Loving Tribute" to a great man.
Paul Mero, President of the Sutherland Institute, spoke at our 2006 conference about how homeschooling benefits the community.
Darla Isackson Author, and her daughter-in-law, Heidi Hanks spoke at our 2005 conference about homeschooling the Hanks children.
John Taylor Gatto, voted New York Teacher of the Year three times, spoke at a breakfast in Salt Lake City in 2001 about the extended childhood we call "teenage."
Listen to them all here.


It looks like family! It looks like Family Home Morning, a devotional, with hymns, scripture study, and prayer - and everyone's awake. It looks like mom reading aloud from great books. It looks like children researching and computing and writing on their own, learning to be self-directed learners. It looks like children working alongside a parent, learning to do their share in support of the family. It looks like family members, individually and together, developing their talents, serving, and playing. These are the kinds of things every good family does, but some families do it mostly at home. It looks like children who are socially comfortable with those younger and older than themselves, who can talk comfortably to adults. more

An LDS Education for LDS Children
Is there an LDS education? Is there a curriculum the Lord would have us learn? A method He would have us use? Is there an educational path to Zion? The Book of Mormon tells us to "trust no one to be your teacher nor your minister, except he be a man of God, walking in his ways and keeping his commandments" (Mosiah 23:14). But what are His educational ways? more

But What About Socialization and Missionarying?
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Can I Do This?
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"A millennial society will emerge in our future; we can either resist or contribute to its development. The basic stewardships that will push this movement into the future reside in each family. Our society will change as our education changes. . . . individuals from many families must do the creative work. . . . As this education is firmly established, temporal excellence in learning will blossom and Zion will increase in beauty and in holiness; her borders will be enlarged, her stakes strengthened, and she will put on her beautiful garments (D&C 82:1-4). And the children will be taught through an agency approach to education."
- NEIL J. FLINDERS, TEACH THE CHILDREN: AN AGENCY APPROACH TO EDUCATION, BYU, 1990