Mother Earth News
July/August 1980
John Holt: Teach Your Own Children…At Home
Read a rare, early interview with one of the true homeschooling pioneers — John Holt. Mr. Holt made two predictions in this interview, one of which came true. At that time, Mr. Holt estimated there were 10,000 families homeschooling and was optimistic those numbers would [...]

Excerpt from an interview with Raymond S. Moore in Human Events, September 15, 1984
Q: [Interviewer] I’m quoting you now: “An early start in formal institutionalized schooling deprives children of the free exploration so crucial to the development of genius.” Could you elaborate on that and give specific ways in which institutionalized learning may penalize or [...]

Taken from The Parent Educator and Family Report (November 1983)
Hewitt Research Foundation
Raymond and Dorothy Moore
Q. We have an only child. Doesn’t he need preschool or kindergarten in order to learn to get along with other children?
A. An only child of course needs care to avoid his becoming self-centered, but unselfishness and altruism can be taught [...]