Environment, Habits, Course of Study, High Quality Books
The keys to this are study environment, study habits, course of study, and high quality books.
The self-teaching home school that the Robinson children developed has been so effective that each of the children is far surpassing Dr. Robinson’s own accomplishments at equivalent ages – even though he was, himself, so well prepared that he was accepted by MIT, Harvard, Rice, and CalTech. After graduation from CalTech and then the University of California at San Diego, he was immediately given a faculty position at UCSD and was considered one of the best prepared young scientists of his generation.
Academic knowledge is in books. Each child must learn to extract and use that knowledge to the greatest extent that his or her abilities permit. This curriculum enables the student to learn these skills with very little teacher help, and it provides the student with 120,000 pages of knowledge from the greatest science, history, literature, economics, reference, and general education books in the English language. These are reinforced by frequent and appropriate examinations.