Comment by sytelus

Home schooled kids largely miss out on lot of things. The quality of education (surprisingly) is irrelevant here. The major thing that school enables is socialization, ability to interact with other kids, form friendships, face/become adversaries, collaborate, strategize interactions and so on. All these social aspects would play much larger role in their lives than any formal subject they learned. In ancient times, this would been naturally enabled as parents go on doing their duties and kids in the village play/work together all day. In modern times, school is usually the only available close approximation.