Knowledge House

KNOWLEDGE HOUSE

"A Place to Live and Learn"
Arizona Flag Arizona
Edventures

BOOKMARK THIS PAGE

HOME PAGE

ABOUT US
  • Family Mission
  • Homeschool Mission
  • Statement of Faith
  • Children & The Internet
  • Contact/Comment
  • Copyright/Permissions
  • Review Guidelines
  • Favored Merchants
  • Sponsors/Advertisers
  • Awards & Praises
  • Web Rings
  • Credits
  • ARTICLES/REVIEWS
  • Family Articles
  • Homeschool Articles
  • Devotional Articles
  • Books, Movies, TV
  • Curriculum, Software & Product Reviews
  • NOT JUST FOR KIDS
    Mini unit studies that encourage parents and children to discuss and explore a wide variety of topics and projects.

    HOMESCHOOL INFO
    Questions & answers, book lists, checklists, articles.
  • Homeschool Resources
    Periodicals, publishers, suppliers, software, online courses, book clubs, etc.
  • Famous Homeschoolers
  • Homeschooling in AZ
  • Unschooling
  • LIBRARY OF LINKS
    Annotated listings of web-based resources grouped by subject.
  • Arizona
  • Art & Music
  • Language Arts
  • Literature
  • Social Studies
  • History:
  • World History
  • American History
  • Government
  • Geography
  • Mathematics
  • Science:
  • General Science
  • Earth Science
  • Life Science
  • Astronomy & Space
  • Foreign Languages
  • Health & P.E.
  • Other Subjects
  • MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
  • Blogs
  • Education & Learning
  • Computers & Software
  • Freebies
  • Kids Links
  • Teen Links
  • Christian Sites
  • Home & Family
  • Ministries & Charities
  • Homeschool Patriots
  • LEARNING FOR LIFE
    A book of quotations on teaching, learning, and the pursuit of knowledge.
  • Excerpts
  • Author Bio
  • Endorsements
  • Press
  • Order Form
  • PRODUCT CATALOG
  • Citizens Rule Book
  • Learning for Life
  • God Created You
  • Captain Dad
  • Abraham Lincoln:
    The Boy, The Man
  • ARIZONA EDVENTURES
    Educational adventures in Arizona! Includes field trip ideas and a study guide.

    K I D S
    P A G E

    Made with Notepad



















    Homeschooling in Arizona

    Homeschooling in Arizona - return to Main Page


    Famous Home Schoolers of Arizona

    John Wesley Powell

    John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was born with a keen interest in science and nature. Beginning in early childhood, he studied botany, zoology and geology without the aid of a teacher. As a youth, he went on many collecting and exploring trips throughout the Midwest. After serving in the Civil War, Powell became a museum curator and lecturer on natural history. In 1869, Powell embarked on his first voyage down the Colorado River to explore the Grand Canyon. Powell surveyed and mapped the region while naming many of its features.

    John Muir

    John Muir (1838-1914) was born in Scotland but grew up in the backwoods of Wisconsin. From the age of 11 to 21 he worked on his father's farm, where he developed a love for nature and animals. Muir received no formal schooling during this time but taught himself math, geometry, literature and philosophy. He became especially interested in poetry and botany. In 1905-1906, while living in Adamana, Arizona, Muir explored the Petrified Forest region and discovered the "Blue Forest" of petrified wood. He wrote a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt asking him to protect it. Muir is also given credit for helping to save the Grand Canyon.

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was schooled at home as a child in New York. His parents offered him a wide choice of reading material and did not force him to study any particular books. Roosevelt also traveled extensively with his family. During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment that contained about 200 men from Arizona including Bucky O'Neill, former mayor of Prescott. Between 1901 and 1919, President Roosevelt worked to preserve more than 170 million acres as national parks and monuments. Roosevelt's legacy includes the Grand Canyon National Monument, Montezuma Castle, Petrified Forest National Monument, Roosevelt Dam, Tonto National Monument, and Tumacacori National Monument.

    Frank Lloyd Wright

    Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was born in Wisconsin. Wright's mother took an active interest in his education and began home schooling him at the kindergarten level. Although Wright never attended architecture school, he eventually became America's most famous architect. In 1939, he built Taliesin West in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains northeast of Scottsdale, Arizona. Wright lived and worked there during the winter months for the next twenty years. He designed about a dozen homes and buildings in the metro Phoenix area.

    Sharlot Hall

    Sharlot Hall (1870-1943) was largely self-educated and highly literate. Although Sharlot attended a few terms in a log-and-adobe schoolhouse near her family's Lynx Creek homestead and boarded in Prescott for one year of school in town, most of her learning took place on the ranch. In addition to being a poet and newspaper reporter, Hall was appointed Territorial Historian, the first woman to hold a public office in Arizona.

    Henry Fountain Ashurst

    Henry Fountain Ashurst (1874-1962), one of Arizona's first two United States senators, was born into a pioneer ranching family. Ashurst briefly attended public school in Flagstaff, but most of his education was obtained from ranch hands of various backgrounds. His learning was enhanced by reading the classics. Ashurst was well known as a gifted and colorful orator who loved to quote Shakespeare. George F. Sparks, the editor of Ashurst’s diary, explained: “His real teachers were the centuries of eloquence, the classical writers whom he never tired of reading…. From them he acquired the long view across the sea of politics, and the loving command of rich language that flowed through a lifetime of oratory.”

    Did You Know...? Ashurst Cabin, now located at Pioneer Living History Village, was the childhood home of Henry Fountain Ashurst in 1878.

    Ansel Adams

    Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was home schooled as a child by his father and aunt. The boy's studies included the English classics, Greek, algebra, and field trips to the ocean, dunes, and rocky beaches around his home near San Francisco. When Adams was twelve, he taught himself to play the piano and read music. One year, his daily visits to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition provided a rich source of informal learning about the world. Adams was also self-taught in photography, a medium that he made into an art form. Adams traveled extensively around the Western United States including Arizona, where he photographed such places as the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Saguaro National Monument, San Xavier Del Bac, and Hoover Dam. In 1975, Adams co-founded the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.

    Sandra Day O'Connor

    Sandra Day O'Connor was born in 1930 to a ranching family. The isolated location of their cattle ranch near Duncan, Arizona, made formal education difficult. At first, O'Connor was taught at home by her mother. She read profusely, went on long nature walks, and learned valuable lessons from everyday life. Then she was sent to a private school for girls in El Paso, Texas, where she received the majority of her education. O’Connor later acknowledged, however, that she would have rather spent her days “reading and riding” on the ranch. O’Connor began her career in Arizona state government. In 1981 she was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first woman justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

    Pat McMahon

    Pat McMahon grew up in a show-business family and was home schooled on the road using curriculum from The Calvert School. McMahon starred in the The Wallace And Ladmo Show, which aired on KPHO-TV from 1954 to 1989. He played a variety of characters, most notably Gerald, the spoiled rich kid. The one-hour show was on five days a week for a record-setting 35 years, the longest running locally produced children's television show in history. Three generations of Arizona kids grew up with Wallace and Ladmo. Among the show's fans were Steven Spielberg and Alice Cooper. The Wallace and Ladmo Show is such an important part of Phoenix history that the Arizona Historical Society Museum created a "Wallace, Ladmo and Company" exhibit.

    Teri Ann Berg Olsen, home educator and author of Learning for Life: Educational Words of Wisdom, has lived in Arizona since 1976. She is researching Arizona's home school history for her next book.

    HOMESCHOOL PIONEERS WANTED:
    If you were involved in the homeschooling movement in Arizona during the 1980's or earlier and would like to share your story, please e-mail . We are also looking for information about your homeschooling ancestors, and historical photographs related to homeschooling in Arizona. This is for a book on the history of homeschooling in Arizona.

    HOME | ARTICLES & REVIEWS | NOT JUST FOR KIDS | HOMESCHOOL | ARIZONA RESOURCES
    LEARNING FOR LIFE | PRODUCT CATALOG | LIBRARY OF LINKS | CONTACT & COMMENTS

    These pages are a continuous work in progress.
    Copyright © 2000- by Teri Ann Berg Olsen
    All rights reserved.

    SPONSOR ADS

    Help Support this Site
    Please visit our fine sponsors
    and purchase items via our affiliate links. Thank you!

    Christianbook.com

    Learning for Life Book

    Citizens Rule Book

    ATTENTION:
    Advertisers, Publishers,
    Site Owners,
    and Home Businesses!
    Place Your
    Ad Here

    LK
    Want to see
    YOUR ad here?

    Click for details