Regading my previous post:
I really wasn't just boasting in our children for my own enjoyment, although I did enjoy it. The point is that through loving, parental home instruction our children are better able to reach their full potential.

Note, though, that having a conventional educational system along side home instruction is okay. It is only when parents abdicate their authority when they relegate their children to an impersonal or godless system. Check out the definitions of relegate:
to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition, to send into exile; to banish

The goal of proper, godly instruction is to direct someone to recognize their identity in Christ and their unique calling in Christ. I associate calling with vocation. We are His witnesses whether we are translating the Bible into a new language, working on a construction site, or in any professional career. Everyone needs to hear the Gospel, and going into every part of the world to be light is how God told us to do it. "Let you light so shine among men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven."

Academics are necessary only to fulfill one's vocation, AKA calling. For instance, it is a myth that everyone must go to college. I personally know business men who never set a foot in college yet in their lifetime they reached more people for Christ, enjoyed a more satisfied lifestyle, and even earned more money than many who had upper graduate degrees. I'm not against college, but it needs to be pursued as part of one's calling and because it's the right thing to do, not because the world tells you so or because you think you'll earn more money if you do. Money is great, but the love of money is the root of all evil, and we don't need any more of that. So don't let the lure and lust of worldly ways draw you into something that God doesn't want.

"By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward."

"See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."

...enough for now...