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The Future Belongs to Homeschoolers

Author : Barbara Frank

The following is an excerpt from "Thriving in the 21st Century:
Preparing Our Children for the New Economic Reality," due out in
2006 from Cardamom Publishers

How does Google find employees, and what does that have to do
with homeschoolers?

I'll get to the second part of that question shortly, but first
let me tell you a bit about Google. If you've spent any time at
all on the Web, you know that Google.com is a powerful and
popular Internet search engine. The company responsible for that
site is also known as Google, and it is growing rapidly. Google
employed fewer than 700 people two years ago; today there are
nearly 2,700 Google employees. Such rapid growth required an
innovative yet efficient approach for finding qualified
engineers to program the Google search engine; Google rose to
the challenge.

In an economy that has not been kind to many technical workers,
word of available jobs at a young and growing company like
Google brings swarms of people from all over the country and
beyond. How can any company sift through so many applications
and resumes in order to find the right people in a reasonable
amount of time? The traditional resume-then-interview sequence
would take far too long.

The powers that be at Google came up with a system that breaks
free of traditional hiring practices and brings the right people
to their doorstep quickly and easily. It includes placing
aptitude tests in "geek" magazines including "Physics Today" and
"Mensa," resulting in a flood of answers sent in by candidates.

Google also buys space on billboards in Silicon Valley, posting
on them only the phrase "(first 10-digit prime found in
consecutive digits of e).com", with no mention of the company
itself. Whoever figures out the answer ends up at a site with a
puzzle on it. Those who successfully solve the puzzle are then
sent to a site where Google accepts resumes. Puzzles and
challenges like these are irresistible to the brainiacs that are
desired by Google, and they respond even if they didn't intend
to look for a new job. Google uses these tactics to attract the
quality applicants needed for its continued success. The beauty
of this system is that Google has broken free of traditional
hiring practices in order to construct a system that brings
qualified potential employees to its doors efficiently and in a
reasonable amount of time. So what does this have to do with
homeschooling?

Everything! The "let's try something different" mindset
thriving at Google is also at home in the home. Homeschooled
kids learn to think for themselves while learning about what
interests them, instead of being told what to do along with 25
or 30 (or more) others who are assigned to do the exact same
thing in the exact same way. Homeschoolers don't spend their
youth held captive in one building all day, being encouraged to
"fit in" and "go along to get along." They have the time and the
freedom to try things, to succeed or fail, and to try something
else.

That freedom is a must for anyone who would innovate. Master
innovator Thomas Edison, with his 1,093 patents (and inventions
too numerous to list) spent much of his youth learning on his
own. According to Blaine McCormick, author of "At Work with
Thomas Edison," the inventor "....deplored formal education. He
believed it ruined your ability to think. To Edison, the ABC's
of education stood for "Avoid Being Creative." "

As we rejoin the global economy, where Americans are faced with
competitors in other countries who will work for far less money
than we will, we must become innovators in order to survive.
Workers in other countries may end up making the things we used
to make, but they will still look to us when determining what to
make, as long as we continue to set the trends by coming up with
new products and ideas. Our country's economic future depends on
our children's ability to be creative, to come up with new ideas
and implement them. By homeschooling them, we equip them to
bring about a prosperous future.

Copyright 2005 Cardamom Publishers/Barbara Frank

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