Dr. Raymond Moore, Educator

[Jeannieb43]

Dr. Raymond Moore passed away approximately two weeks ago.

After teaching in Adventist schools and colleges for many years, he retired and with his wife Dorothy they established a homeschooling foundation. He believed that children should be taught at home for the first several years of their lives, and he became known around the world for establishing highly successful homeschooling curricula.

www.homeschool.com/advisors/moore

I think he was nearly ninety years old when he died.

[John317]

I remember watching the Moore's on 3ABN back in the early '90s. He and his wife did a great work. I'm sorry to hear about his passing.

[Jeannieb43]

By Googling Dr. Raymond Moore (to try to find his date of birth) I've come up with a whole lot of good sites praising him and his work with homeschooling.

Here are a few of them.

www.homehearts.com/journal/2007/07/16/remembering-dr-raymond-moore/

www.homeschoolblogger.com/HSBCompanyBlog/356996/

Well, as you'll see on this last site, Dr. Moore died on Friday the 13th of July, at the age of 91.

There are two memorial services planned for him, in August (next month). These dates and locations are both given in the HSB notice.

[Gerr]

He edited a book entitled, "Better Late Than Early" back in the latter 70's, advocating that children not be started in school too early. We got a lot of pressure from some SDA teachers trying get us to enroll our son early but we resisted. We started him in first grade when he was 7 1/2. I believe he was right on. I'm sorry to hear he had died.

Gerry

[Dottie]

I homeschooled my daughter through the Moore Foundation. They helped me determine what her grade level would be and how to implement home schooling. It was great! She homeschooled for four years, all at her choice, from the time she started to the time she returned to a regular school.

She is now studying for her Masters' in Information Science (used to be called library science, but now it has a fancier name!).

[Gail]

I also was connected with the Moore Foundation for a few years. Dr. Moore once gave me a pass to one of his seminars when I could not afford it.

I credit his method, which is really EGW counsel with research for backup, for making my family what they are today- go getters who are leaders not followers.

Ed Dickerson and Dr. Raymond Moore were good friends...

I will always respect Dr. Moore and his wife's memories as faithful, diligent instruments for the Lord.

[there buster]

I had the privilege to call the Moore's friends and colleagues.

They had called me just about one month before Dorothy died two(?) years ago. I mentioned them during one of my talks at BC campmeeting and a woman informed me that Ray had just died.

Frankly, seeing the two of them together, I didn't expect him to go on long without her. It was one of those marriages.

[Jeannieb43]

My connection with Dr. Raymond Moore goes back to before I was born. My dad taught Dr. Moore at PUC. Many years later we were both working in Takoma Park, and he stopped me on the church steps more than once to reminisce about my father. He said "Your dad was a born teacher." And coming from a master teacher himself, I counted it an honor.

When we were all located in California, many years later, he contacted me to take on the legal work for his foundation. Because of my heavy home duties in addition to my other law practice, however, I had to decline.

He'll have many stars in his crown in heaven, I'm sure.

[cricket]

Quote:

Washington Times Op-ed—Honoring Moore’s Achievements

by J. Michael Smith

HSLDA President

The homeschool community owes a great debt of gratitude to Raymond S. Moore, who died July 13 at age 91.

Mr. Moore was instrumental in developing the modern homeschool movement. Without his early involvement, it’s likely that homeschooling would not be as popular as it is today.

A home-based education or a small community school was the norm in America until the Industrial Revolution. A burgeoning immigrant population, a desire among the people to assimilate the newcomers and the perceived needs of big business gave momentum to the development of institutionalized schools, which became almost totally dominant by the 1950s.

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