http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/famous-homeschoolers.html
The link above will take you to a long list of famous/successful people who just so happened to be homeschooled. I will highlight two of those people...
Disclaimer: Just because I have listed here the names of particular people, does not mean that I agree with them in their political or personal beliefs. My purpose is to show that homeschooled or self-educated people can be, and frequently are, as intelligent and well-educated as anyone else.
Thomas Edison - had only 3 months of "formal" (public or private school) education. When Thomas was 8 years old, his teacher believed him to be "incredibly stupid". Fortunately for Thomas, his mother believed otherwise. She took him out of school and began homeschooling him. She exposed Thomas to books of a far higher level than his school peers were exposed to. By age 11, Thomas had set up his own laboratory in his basement. He went on to become one of our greatest early inventors of modern technology - the lightbulb and the phonograph are just two examples of his many inventions.
Albert Einstein - stopped attending "formal" school when he was 10 years old. He did not do well at school and became bored. He began studies at home which lasted until he was 16. His mother taught him music. His uncle exposed him to higher math. A medical student (friend of the family) exposed young Einstein to popular science and philosophy. At age 16, he enrolled in a secondary school for one year to study physics. Einstein became a great physicist and was instrumental in encouraging the research & development of the atomic bomb (in the United States), which was crucial in bringing WW II to an end.
