Our Creator places upon parents the responsibility of teaching their offspring the true meaning of life     spiritual life as well as physical life. They are to train them up in the way they are to go, and this training should be their guide not only in their youth, but also in their old age. ⁽⁴⁴⁾ In  ancient Israel, parents were obligated to begin the training during the child's infancy. (2 Tim 3:14,15). To fulfil this obligation they were to provide education for their children both inside and outside the home. There  were no community schools for children in ancient Israel. The home was the school. The parent was to teach by example as well as by precept, and their training was to be a regular and continuous arrangement. ⁽⁴⁵⁾

In Britain today, only a small number of children are educated at home under the provisions of the 1944 Education Act that sanctions education 'otherwise'. A child's social development also has to be considered, as children whose parents remove them from a State school to educate them at home are viewed with suspicion and are ostracized by State-school children almost immediately.

Such indoctrination is of course a deliberate act of will by the many against the will and freedom of the few. The dispiriting campaign waged against home educators is initiated through the incorrect application of the word academic by the State. By implication, it segregates those who prove themselves by productive work from those so-called academics who merely write about it. I am referring to members of the educational establishment who implement measures to bully lazy and negligent parents with intricacies of the law in order to maintain their self-important positions within the State system. They have proved most conclusively their own inability to teach children good moral standards, as is betrayed by the resulting fruitage: Bullying is common among State school children, some of whom lead their victims to commit suicide. Drug abuse is also common, as is vandalism and teenage pregnancy.

Local Education Authorities have been unable to put forward a standard of education that could be tested in law, not even one to suit the State's academically trained judiciary; for the judiciary have conceded that no such 'standard' can possibly exist that takes into account every child's age and ability. The judgement of Lord Alveston, as quoted overleaf, set a precedent in the case of  Bevan v. Shears  (2nd King's Bench Division 1911):

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