What year did homeschooling start?

Answer 1

Tricky question! Homeschooling, or, the process of teaching a child at home, as pretty much been around as long as people have been learning. Whether the desired education included basic skills, reading, math, etc. or merely the work of a trade, homeschooling started as the norm.

Private schools that charged tuition fees were available to the wealthier classes of Egyptian, Greek and Roman societies-- their sons would be educated to work in the handling of accounts, libraries, legal fields, and so on.

Public school, as we know it, started as a free service of the church, in England in the late 1700s. They began as a ministry, to teach those who could not afford private schools or tutors to read The Bible. This developed into an outreach, in England and in the United States, mostly to orphans and lower-class children; for no charge, children could show up on what was usually their only day off, to "Sunday school" and learn how to read, write, and understand basic written math.

This developed into the daily school system we now know, and later into the "public for all" system, rather than just the underprivileged. In the United States, there was a movement that gradually gained momentum, to pull kids out of school or never let them start, to keep them at home and teach them the way kids used to learn-- with parents, in a controlled environment. It first gained popularity with the most religious conservatives and also those merely worried about the actual value of the public school education. It continues to gain popularity even today.

Answer 2

As long as humans have, of course. It existed before standardized, institutionalized education did. It was only until a bit under two hundred years ago that schooling was mandatory, or considered a necessity for life. If you mean as an accepted modern form of education, it first began to really grow approximately fifty years ago.

Answer 3

You would have to go back way in history to find when it was started. I believe that Homeschooling was here BEFORE public schooling or private schooling. Here are some people who were home-schooled to give you an idea of how long homeschooling has been around.

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Claude Monet
• John Singleton Copley
• Andrew Wyeth
• Jamie Wyeth

• Irving Berlin
• Anton Bruckner
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Francis Poulenc

• Frederick Terman (Stanford University President)
• William Samuel Johnson (Columbia University President)
• Frank Vandiver (Texas A&M University President)
• John Witherspoon (Princeton University President)

• Stonewall Jackson
• Robert E. Lee
• Douglas MacArthur
• George Patton

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Cyrus McCormick
• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• John Quincy Adams
• William Henry Harrison
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln
• James Madison
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• John Tyler
• George Washington
• Woodrow Wilson

• Moses
• Joan of Arc
• John the Baptist
• William Cary
• Jonathan Edwards
• Phillip Melanchthon
• Dwight L. Moody
• John Newton
• John Owen
• Charles Wesley
• John Wesley
• Brigham Young

• George Washington Carver
• Pierre Curie
• Albert Einstein
• Blaise Pascal
• Booker T. Washington

• Konrad Adenauer
• Winston Churchill
• Benjamin Franklin
• Patrick Henry
• William Penn
• Henry Clay

• John Jay
• John Marshall
• John Rutledge

• Hans Christian Andersen
• Pearl S. Buck
• Agatha Christie
• Charles Dickens
• Bret Harte
• C.S. Lewis
• Sean O'Casey
• George Bernard Shaw
• Mark Twain
• Mercy Warren
• Daniel Webster
• Phillis Wheatley

• Richard Basset (Governor of Delaware)
• William Blount (U.S. Senator)
• George Clymer (U.S. Representative)
• William Few (U.S. Senator)
• Benjamin Franklin (Inventor and Statesman)
• William Houston (Lawyer)
• William S. Johnson (President of Columbia C.)
• William Livingston (Governor of New Jersey)
• James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
• George Mason
• John Francis Mercer (U.S. Representative)
• Charles Pickney III (Governor of S. Carolina)
• John Rutledge (Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court)
• Richard D. Spaight (Governor of N. Carolina)
• George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.
• John Witherspoon (President of Princeton U.)
• George Wythe (Justice of Virginia High Court)

• Abigail Adams (Wife of John Adams)
• Ansel Adams (Photographer)
• Clara Barton (Started the Red Cross)
• John Burroughs (Naturalist)
• Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist)
• Charles Chaplin (Actor)
• George Rogers Clark - Explorer
• Noel Coward (Playwright)
• John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)
• Sandra Day O'Connor
• Tamara McKinney (World Cup Skier)
• John Stuart Mill (Economist)
• Charles Louis Montesquieu (Philosopher)
• Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
• Sally Ride (Astronaut)
• Bill Ridell (Newspaperman)
• George Rogers Clark (Explorer)
• Will Rogers (Humorist)
• Jim Ryan (World Runner)
• Albert Schweitzer (Physician)
• Leo Tolstoy
• Martha Washington (Wife of George Washington)

Answer 4

1960

Answer 5

1970