Buehler Education

Why I have dedicated my career to homeschooling (condensed version)

Antonio Buehler — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:22:28 +0000

Life wasn’t very easy on my single father, my younger brother and me as we grew up in government housing in Pottsville, PA. I took it upon myself to help raise my younger brother. I would help him with his homework, get in fights with bullies on his behalf, and by the time I was [...]

Homeschooling for Libertarians – Interview

Antonio Buehler — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:32:41 +0000

Today I was interviewed by Drew Martin and Wes Messamore. We spoke about homeschooling, education, liberty, and the state. I enter the conversation at 31:15.

Hugging banned, education irrelevant

Antonio Buehler — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:02:06 +0000

What do you do when you are a school principal or teacher and you have a child that will not conform to the rules of the school or a particular lesson being taught? What do you do when that child threatens to derail the culture that you are trying to create or preserve? Do you [...]

Checking in

Antonio Buehler — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:56:24 +0000

Thank you for continually checking in on Buehler Education and inquiring as to why I have been so quiet on the education front. For those who have not been following my story in the media or on facebook, I will soon be posting the details as to why I have been inactive as a blogger, [...]

Sexual Predators in the Classroom

Antonio Buehler — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:19:02 +0000

We’ve made clear on numerous occasions that “education” is hardly a reason to send children off to school, especially a traditional public school. However, as we discussed in the last blog post, bullying is another great reason to keep them home. Unfortunately, the inability to deliver quality education and rampant bullying are just the tip of [...]

Public Schools Are Infested With Bullies

Antonio Buehler — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:52:07 +0000

Bullying has become such a problem in schools that it has become the social issue du jour, with celebrities such as musician Lada Gaga, professional football player DeSean Jackson and President Barack Obama each having taken up the issue. The bullying does not have to emanate from public schools, but it overwhelmingly seems to. The [...]

Education Quotes

Antonio Buehler — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:34:53 +0000

I am a huge fan of quotes, especially if they can open people up to new ideas that they’d otherwise ignore from just another layman. Quotes can come from honest people who are interested in advancing freedom and liberty, or they can come from corrupt people intent on reshaping the world for their preferred forms [...]

What If a Child Does Not Want to Learn (Part 2 of 2)

Antonio Buehler — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:07:08 +0000

The most important thing a parent can do to ensure a child has a desire to learn is to never allow them to believe that education only occurs in big concrete buildings filled with teachers. Nothing destroys the desire to learn more than being put in a box and being yelled at by people indifferent [...]

School – A Sonnet

Antonio Buehler — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:15:02 +0000

I went to school full of hope and joy Who could know all there is to know? Not I Grey-haired adults my knowledge would enhance My false assumptions they would then belie. I was told to stand up against the wall They gave me a number in place of name They said I could color [...]

How to get into Harvard as a Homeschooler – Agora I/O (Video)

Antonio Buehler — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:00:16 +0000

Here is the video from my other presentation with the latest Agoro I/O conference. Skip the first 2:50. Enjoy.

Homeschooling is the Future of the Liberty Movement – Agora I/O (Video)

Antonio Buehler — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:25:07 +0000

Here is a video from the latest Agoro I/O conference I participated in – my first ever online conference. Most of it was off the cuff. Skip the first 3:30. Enjoy.

What If a Child Does Not Want to Learn (Part 1 of 2)

Antonio Buehler — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 04:27:48 +0000

Children are natural learners – they are eager to investigate the mysteries of life and the world around them. They seek constant self-improvement on numerous levels, and as social beings they demand attention from adults and try to become a part of a grownup world. The problem with society today is that we find ways [...]

Education Tops Government Employment

Antonio Buehler — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:21:13 +0000

The U.S. Census Bureau recently revealed that the majority of the 16.6 million full-time government employees at the state and local level work in the education field. There are 9.0 million people around the country who work in secondary and elementary education, which also happens to total more than double of all the government employees [...]

Teaching Is a Privilege, Not a Burden

Antonio Buehler — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:58:39 +0000

I’ve coached biddy league basketball, little league baseball and high school football. Through mentoring I’ve helped a child from a poverty-stricken neighborhood gain admission into an elite prep school with full scholarship. Through counseling I’ve helped many students gain admission into some of the top universities in the world. But I have never formally taught before, [...]

End Public Schooling to Improve Education

Antonio Buehler — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:33:00 +0000

Let’s imagine for a second that we have the power to reform public schools however we want to, without interference from government, teachers unions or school boards. Would we expand the school day or the school year to get more teaching in? Would we test outcomes, and reward and punish teachers and schools based on [...]

History Class: An Indoctrination Tool

Antonio Buehler — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:27:16 +0000

Public schools are indoctrination centers. This may sound to some like an “extremist” position but it is simply reality. From the first day of kindergarten children are taught that they are to know their place, to wait for instructions, to speak only when spoken to, that the teacher is always right and that authority is [...]

End Support of Public Schooling by Homeschooling

Antonio Buehler — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:35:31 +0000

The state of public education is abominable. The national graduation rate doesn’t top 70%, out of 34 nations we only rank 17th in science and 25th in mathematics, and 20 percent of high school seniors can be classified as being functionally illiterate at the time they graduate (if they graduate). Despite what public sector unions and [...]

Taking a Walk With Antonio

Antonio Buehler — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:58:48 +0000

This past Saturday, on a march for Ron Paul, I fell into a conversation on education. I wasn’t planning on talking about the joke that is public education in America, but as soon as the words ‘No Child Left Behind’ were uttered I went off. You don’t have to be a Ron Paul supporter to [...]

Why Black Families Should Homeschool

Antonio Buehler — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:03:38 +0000

The black community is worse off than most other racial groups in America in a variety of sobering ways – from HIV rates to incarceration rates to poverty rates. This situation is driven directly and indirectly by flawed or deliberately destructive government policies that disproportionately harm Black America. While the two corrupt establishment political parties [...]

Homeschooling is Tailor Made for Military Families

Antonio Buehler — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:39:39 +0000

Raising children in a military family has always been a challenge. The long and inconsistent hours of the military, the training exercises that can last from days to weeks at a time, and being forced to move to a new duty station every couple of years puts tremendous stress on the service member, the spouse, [...]