"(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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This website is designed to support parents who are educating
their children from a gospel perspective in addition to
or in place of classroom school.
If our youth are to be saved from the evils of today's world,
fulfill their personal missions, and participate in the
upbuilding of Zion, their parents must teach them.

Teaching in the Home:
Lessons from the April 2010 General Conference
The April 2010 General Conference included as one of its themes a strong call for improved teaching in the home. These messages are a shaft of light from above that should guide the gospel teaching of all families and the secular educational efforts of those who homeschool. So let's get to it! Please read our comments and then send your comments and suggestions to joyce@ldshea.org so we can add them to the site.
Elder L. Tom Perry, Mothers Teaching Children in the Home
Elder David A. Bednar, Watching with All Perservenance

The School of the Family
For the past twenty years we have supported and encouraged homeschoolers, as we will continue to do. Now we wish to include all families in a broader and more simple proposal . . . We therefore suggest the establishment of a "school" of some kind in every family in whatever way the family chooses. This may mean just a change in the conversation at the dinner table and a new bookshelf. It may involve an hour or two on Saturday mornings or Sunday afternoons. It is a family work -- a family gathered at home, experiencing the joy of learning truth together . . . .
read the School of the Family proposal

The Father's Role in Family Education:
Preside, Provide, and Protect
Neil J. Flinders
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. 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. 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. more

Ritchie Kinmont, Homeschool Dad
Reed Benson, son of President Ezra Taft Benson
Paul Mero, President of the Sutherland Institute
Darla Isackson,Author, and homeschool Grandma
John Taylor Gatto, New York Teacher of the Year
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. 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
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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