A Belgian home educator, Mr. Paul Belien wrote a most interesting article about “Europe must find its roots in America”. http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1150. Mr. Steuer might gain some insight by reading it.

The second argument of course is the most normal reaction from some one who has not even thought about such possibilities of parents. I would have reacted in a much harder way, when I was part of a school-board 23 years ago. Since then my wife and I have home educated four children with best success. I am trained as a chef, my wife as a secretary. We were on our own, the first ones who dared. Between two hundred and five hundred families must have followed ever since here in Switzerland. – As a result of such success, the authorities started to restrict possibilities and plan to bring it to an end for this country. Much could be said. Let’s trust the upcoming generation to do better than we did. We are standing with them. The fight is getting more fierce. We won’t give away the most precious gifts you can have in life: the children the creator has given you. – As long as children learn in school and repeat it every day, as they make their way to that “learning-place”: “My parents are incapable to teach me what my teacher knows” and as long as parents repeat it and educational commissioners, teachers and all the thousands of experts, psychologists, social workers, doctors, high school teachers, university professors, politicians and journalists and long lists of even more specialists: “school is the real and only place where you can learn to live”, well so long it will be difficult for us to find freedom to direct our children into real life. I encourage not to giving up. We must take up those arguments and reply on every serious question.

This man, Mr. Steuer seems to deserve answers. Let’s talk to him. He is not informed. He can’t know, so he can’t help. It’s up to us to help him.