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I Was Homeschooled and Turned Out Fine

October 15th, 2024 | 7 min read

By Alan Noble

I like to say that I was very homeschooled because we had goats. Milk goats to be exact. I drank goat’s milk daily, especially chocolate goat’s milk, which was very creamy. I needed it to fatten me up as a very scrawny and awkward homeschooled teenage boy. For a year or two, every night I would stay up late watching Murder She Wrote, eating a bowl of Top Ramen, and drinking a tall glass of chocolate goat’s milk. For whatever reason, this strikes me as a supremely homeschool kind of behavior.

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Alan Noble

O. Alan Noble (PhD, Baylor) is associate professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University, a fellow at the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, and author of On Getting Out of Bed, You Are Not Your Own, and Disruptive Witness. Noble has published articles at The Atlantic, The Gospel Coalition, First Things, and Christianity Today. He lives with his wife and three children in Oklahoma City.

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