Mary Pride
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Mary Pride (1955 - ) is an author and magazine producer on homeschooling and Christian topics. She is best known for her homeschooling works but has also written on women’s roles and new age thought from a conservative evangelical perspective. She is considered a pioneer in the homeschooling and Christian Quiverfull movements.
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[edit] Early Life
Pride was born in New York City in 1955. She was a bright student and graduated high school at age 15, after which she entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she earned a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1974 and a master's degree in Computer System’s Engineering a year later. She married her husband Bill around this time and both soon converted to Evangelical Christianity. Pride had formerly considered herself a feminist activist.
Before Pride’s first of 9 children were born, she had decided to homeschool them. The lack of homeschooling guides she encountered prompted her to begin writing and distributing her own.
[edit] Contributions
In addition to Pride's many publications, including as editor of Practical Homeschooling Magazine, she runs the website Homeschool World, which maintains it is the world's most visited site on homeschooling. Because so few publications were available on homeschooling in the mid-1980s, when she began to publish, she is considered a pioneer in the modern homeschooling movement. Stemming from her first book The Way Home, Pride is also regarded as a primary founder of Quiverfull, a Christian movement that eschews all forms of contraception and believes that children should be eagerly accepted as blessings from God.
[edit] Publications
[edit] Books
- The Way Home (Crossway Books, 1985)
- The Big Book of Home Learning (Crossway Books, 1986)
- The Next Book of Home Learning (Crossway Books, 1987)
- The New Big Book of Home Learning (Crossway Books, 1988)
- All the Way Home (Crossway Books, 1989)
- The Child Abuse Industry (Crossway Books, 1986)
- Schoolproof (Crossway Books, 1988)
- Unholy Sacrifices of the New Age and Ancient Empires of the New Age (Crossway Books, 1988, 1989 both with Paul deParrie)
- The “Old Wise Tales” series (Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1990): Too Many Chickens, The Greenie, The Better Butter Battle, Baby Doe
- The Big Book of Home Learning 4 volumes: Getting Started, Preschool & Elementary, Teen & Adult, Afterschooling (Crossway Books, 1991)
- Pride’s Guide to Educational Software with husband Bill Pride (Crossway, 1997)
- The Big Book of Home Learning 3 volumes: Getting Started, Preschool & Elementary, Junior High Through College (Alpha Omega Publications, 1999)
- Mary Pride’s Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling (Harvest House, 2004)
[edit] Periodicals
- HELP For Growing Families
- Practical Homeschooling
- Big Happy Family
- Homeschool PC
