8 September 2009, 1:35 pm
FAMOUS HOMESCHOOLERS Constitutional Convention Delegates Richard Basseti - 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 College William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey James Madison - 4th President of the U.S. George Mason - Justice of Virginia County Court 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 North Carolina George Washington - 1st President of the U.S. John Witherspoon - President of Princeton University George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court Presidents John Adams John Quincy Adams Grover Cleveland James Garfield William Henry Harrison Andrew Jackson Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln James Madison Franklin Delano Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt John Tyler George Washington Woodrow Wilson Statesmen Konrad Adenauer Henry Fountain Ashurst William Jennings Bryan Winston Churchill Henry Clay Pierre du Pont Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry William Penn Daniel Webster Military Leaders John Barry - Senior Navy Officer Stonewall Jackson - Civil War General John Paul Jones - Father of the American Navy Robert E. Lee - Civil War General Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General George Patton - U.S. General Matthew Perry - naval officer who opened up trade with Japan John Pershing - U.S. General David Dixon Porter - Civil War Admiral U.S. Supreme Court Judges John Jay John Marshall John Rutledge Sandra Day O'Connor Scientists George Washington Carver Pierre Curie Albert Einstein Michael Faraday - electrochemist Oliver Heaviside - physicist and electromagnetism researcher T.H. Huxley Blaise Pascal Booker T. Washington Artists William Blake John Singleton Copley Claude Monet Grandma Moses Charles Peale Leonardo da Vinci Andrew Wyeth Jamie Wyeth Religious Leaders Joan of Arc William Carey Jonathan Edwards Philipp Melancthon Dwight L. Moody John Newton John Owen Hudson Taylor John & Charles Wesley Brigham Young Inventors Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone John Moses Browning - firearms inventor and designer Peter Cooper - invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive Thomas Edison - invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb Benjamin Franklin - invented the lightning rod Elias Howe - invented sewing machine William Lear - airplane creator Cyrus McCormick - invented grain reaper Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo jet engine Orville and Wilbur Wright - built the first successful airplane Composers Irving Berlin Anton Bruckner Noel Coward Felix Mendelssohn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Francis Poulenc John Philip Sousa Writers Hans Christian Anderson Margaret Atwood Pearl S. Buck William F. Buckley, Jr. Willa Cather Agatha Christie Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Charles Dickens Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charlotte Perkins Gilman Alex Haley Brett Harte L. Ron Hubbard C.S. Lewis Amy Lowell Gabriela Mistral Sean O'Casey Christopher Paolini - author of #1 NY Times bestseller, Eragon Isabel Paterson Beatrix Potter - author of the beloved Peter Rabbit Tales Carl Sandburg George Bernard Shaw Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs Mercy Warren Phillis Wheatley Walt Whitman Laura Ingalls Wilder Educators Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott Catharine Beecher - co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary Jill Ker Conway - first woman president of Smith College Timothy Dwight - President of Yale University William Samuel Johnson - President of Columbia College Horace Mann - "Father of the American Common School" Charlotte Mason - Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education Fred Terman - President of Stanford University Frank Vandiver - President of Texas A&M University Booker T. Washington - Founder of Tuskegee Institute John Witherspoon - President of Princeton University Performing Artists Louis Armstrong - king of jazz Charlie Chaplin - actor Whoopi Goldberg - actress Hanson - sibling singing group Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy violinist Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson Frankie Muniz - child actor LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy country music singer Business Entrepreneurs Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel ind Just got this from ZAP: Hello Obama Lied Trillion$ Died (obamalied.billionsdied), You have received a message from another user! From: Zap Subject: PUH-LEEZ Message: I repeat myself..."Home-schooling" does not equate to being "self-taught" because society in the days of Di Vinci, etc. lacked the means to educate the masses...I already told you that. Every person on that list was either taught by a private tutor because the family was rich enough to afford one or were self-taught because they had the motivation and drive to get out of the poor house their family was in and public schooling was not available. C'mon...you can't be that gullible.... Read More »
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