And, what constitutes a ‘better adult’? This question is, ultimately, at the heart of the decision for people like my parents who chose to home school for religious reasons.
For my parents, a ‘better adult’ was one who had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, believed that the smallest possible government should somehow exert the maximum amount of control over people’s bodies and beliefs, and that the earth is 6,000 years old despite all readily available evidence.
Happily, they also believed a ‘better adult’ is a well-read one and so they encouraged me to read as much as possible and were (in hindsight) surprisingly lax with what I read, as long as it was a book. So I ended up drawing much different conclusions than they did about stuff.