A Modern Famous Home Scholar

 

Home schooled from the fourth grade, Joey Logano is known in racing circles by his nickname, “Sliced Bread,” as in, “the greatest thing since…” He has certainly established himself as one of the best young stock car drivers around. Logano starter racing when his was six and won the national junior stock car racing national championship just a year later. Logano went on to become the youngest driver ever to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup race, the youngest to take home Rookie of the Year honors, and the youngest to race in the legendary Daytona 500. Being home schooled allowed Logano to devote more time to racing than many of his peers. When an interviewer asked the then eleven years old Logano in 2001 if he felt like he was missing out on life with all the racing and training he was doing, his reply was, “I have home schooling and I really like that. I don’t feel like I’m missing anything by not going to school. I feel like I learn more that way.”

A Modern Famous Home Scholar

 

Jonathan Krohn

Jonathan Krohn, whom Jon Stewart of The Daily Show once referred to as “Doogie Howser GOP,” became something of an overnight political sensation after his three minute speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference when he was 13, garnering coverage from several major American media outlets and worldwide attention on YouTube. A year prior to the speech Krohn published his first book, a conservative political manifesto called Define Conservatism, which he dedicated to Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley, Jr. Krohn has since written a second book, Defining Conservatism: The Principles That Will Bring Our Country Back, which is described as “a history lesson, a manifesto, and a road map for the future” designed to get the Republican party and the conservative movement in America back on track. Krohn, who has been home schooled since 2007, is a regular contributor to the conservative magazine Human Events.

A Modern Famous Home Scholar

                       

                      Akiane Kramarik

Akiane Kramarik is considered to be the youngest art and poetry prodigy in history, but chances are you’ve never heard of her. Kramarik taught herself to draw at age four, began painting at age six, and started writing poetry when she was seven. She also speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language. According to Kramerik, God taught her how to paint and write, and has been appearing and speaking to her in dreams and visions since she was three. Prior to Kramarik’s encounter with God her family had no serious religious commitments. Her mom, a Lithuanian immigrant, was an atheist and her American father was a lapsed Catholic. They, along with Kramerik’s four brothers, are now devout Christians as a result of Kramarik’s influence. Kramarik’s first painting sold for $10,000 and she has since sold paintings for as much as $1,ooo,ooo, making her one of the wealthiest child art prodigies in the world and one of the richest teens in the United States.