Rani Dasi - What her mother taught her about education (clip)

Rani Dasi (RD): And I went to college in Northwestern University in Chicago, actually Evanston, Illinois and I studied engineering. I was always interested in numbers and how they tell the story of the world really, and then during that time I continued to mentor and tutor other students. So, I would say education has always been a really important part of my life primarily as a gift from my mom.

Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you know what led your parents to choose homeschooling as a path when you were younger?

RD: Yes, so she explored a lot of different… we didn’t have a lot of resources. She grew up in inner city in Cleveland and she had seen what public education did not do for her as a student. I think she wanted to protect us (I feel bad my back is to you) and she really understood how important education is for everything, how you access everything in the world, and so she just committed her life to making sure that she provided a pathway for us. So, there were very different kinds of educational pathways that my siblings experienced. So I was homeschooled until I was in sixth grade. Some of them were homeschooled through high school or into high school and some of them went to charter schools, but it was really always an exploration of what’s best for each individual child.

KW: And what do you remember when you first went to–my daughter was also home schooled…