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*[[Daniel Webster]] (1782-1852), prominent U.S. Senator and Secretary of State recognized as one of the greatest orators in history and also the father of the English language in America. He attended [[Phillips-Exeter]] for only a few months before being pulled out to be homeschooled by the Rev. Samuel Wood.<ref>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/1801/</ref>
*[[The Wright Brothers|Orville and Wilbur Wright]], inventors of the airplane. They did attend some school, but also learned at home from their father, who was a conservative minister , and their mother, who was a college graduate with a degree in mathematics.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/family.htm</ref> Neither Wright Brother earned a high school diploma, let alone college, and Orville Wright left high school after his junior year.<ref>http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/trivia.htm</ref>
*[[Andrew Wyeth]] (1917- ), American artist, was tutored at home until he was 18. <ref>The Homeschooling of Andrew Wyeth, A Conversation with the Artist, Gifted Children Monthly, May 1986, Vol 7 No. 5.[http://www.nfgcc.org/51.htm] </ref>
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