I home schooled my children till 16 — all four got into Oxbridge
This week my son Xavier will start his first term at Oxford University studying maths, my fourth child to get into Oxbridge. His older sisters, Olivia and Felicity, are Oxford graduates in classics and music respectively and his older brother, Max, has a degree in engineering from Cambridge. Two of them had choral scholarships; two had academic scholarships.
The Times • Elizabeth Howard
When Elizabeth Howard chose to homeschool her four children, some called her reckless—and she had doubts of her own. Years later, all four earned places at Oxford or Cambridge, offering a striking story about parental conviction, unconventional paths to learning, and what may be possible when families take a different approach to education.
