"Homeschooling works because schooling is not the same thing as education. School is not the only place to learn, to grow up. Universities and colleges recognize this fact whenever they admit homeschoolers who have never attended school."
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Patrick Farenga, October 25, 1991 The Exhausted School, Presented by Patrick Farenga at Carnegie Hall
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