THE HOME SCHOOL HALL OF FAME

(Famous People Who Were Taught at Home by Their Parents)

 

 

PRESIDENTS

CHIEF JUSTICES OF

I. T. PROFESSIONAL

George Washington

U.S. SUPREME COURT

Kevin Wood

Thomas Jefferson

John Rutledge

GENERALS

James Madison

John Jay

“Stonewall” Jackson

John Quincy Adams

John Marshall

Robert E. Lee

Abraham Lincoln

PREACHERS &

Douglas MacArthur

William Henry Harrison

MISSIONARIES

George Patton

Theodore F. Roosevelt

John & Charles Wesley

FAMOUS WOMEN

Woodrow Wilson

John Owen

Abigail Adams

John Tyler

Jonathan Edwards

Mercy Warren

Franklin D. Roosevelt

William Carey

Phyllis Wheatley

GOVERNORS

Dwight L. Moody

Agatha Christie

Patrick Henry (VA)

John Newton

Florence Nightingale

Charles Pickney III (SC)

Hudson Taylor

Pearl S. Buck

Richard D. Spaight (NC)

SCIENTISTS,

PHILOSOPHER

William Livingston (NJ)

ECONOMISTS,

Charles Montesquieu

Richard Bassett (DE)

BUSINESSMEN

ARTISTS

U.S. SENATORS OR

Blaise Pascal

John Singleton Copley

CONGRESSMEN

Booker T. Washington

Andrew Wyeth

William S. Johnson (CT)

Thomas Edison

Rembrandt Peale

George Clymer (PA)

Benjamin Franklin

Claude Monet

John Francis Mercer (MD)

Andrew Carnegie

Ansel Adams

William Blount (TN)

John Stuart Mill

AUTHORS

William Few (GA)

COMPOSERS

Mark Twain

COLLEGE PRESIDENTS

Anton Bruckner

George Bernard Shaw

John Witherspoon - Princeton

Felix Mendelssohn

Irving Berlin

Timothy Dwight – Yale

Amadeus Mozart

Charles Dickens

William S. Johnson – Columbia

Francis Poulenc

C. S. Lewis

 

Documented in the book The Right Choice: The Incredible Failure of Public Education and the Rising Hope of Home Schooling by Christopher J. Klicka.