While critics of home schooling attack it on many fronts, research shows that home schooled children perform as well or better than conventionally schooled peers in academic achievement. ... Whether it was that I was lucky to have two parents take an avid interest in my education, or that I was blessed with the creme of the crop as far as educators are concerned, or that I took responsibility for my own education because I was taught that it will get me far in life, whatever the reason home education could never compare to the memories and relationships that I hold dear to my heart. ...