We homeschooled our three children. It was an interesting experience. People often start the process with a sort of death grip on a curriculum and come to find out that education is not so complicated a process that only a trained professional can do it.
There is a lot of information on the Internet by John Taylor Gatto that describes some of the many problems with our institutional educational industrial complex.
Here is a link to a 10m video describing the history of education that might be interesting.