Having cycled through different educational forms over the past seven years, I have come back to a year where my kids will all be mentored from home. I find myself surprisingly revisiting those questions that have not only plagued me, but many other parents who have decided that homeschooling is best for their children: -How can I possibly teach them enough ? -Should I just follow someone else's curriculum, and if so, how can I know it will give my children what they need? -If not, where in the world should I begin? AN EDUCATION OF DISCOVERY Tackling these hard questions has always overwhelmed me. I took a breath, stepped back, and tried to look at the big picture: the WHY of educating. In doing so, I gravitated back to an old mentor, Sir Ken Robinson: From the talk: "You see, there are things we're enthralled to in education. A couple of examples. One of them is the idea of linearity: that it starts here and you go through a track and if you do ...