I don't think a similar socializing experience = homogenization. I have been encouraged by a lot of my teachers throughout my life to "dream" and be curious.

I don't think a similar socializing experience = homogenization. I have been encouraged by a lot of my teachers throughout my life to "dream" and be curious. I have attended 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 3 high schools, 3 public universities, and 1 community college. There was at least one teacher at every school who encouraged "dreaming" for me. All this talk of socialization is not meant to suggest that it is the main purpose of school, merely that there are specific types of social interactions that children encounter a lot of in public school, while very little in a home-schooled environment.