More than 1 million kids today are being educated at home by their parents.

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It seems almost a kind of magical thinking that caused people to believe that keeping capable, highly educated people at home actually de-incentivizing them from entering the workforce was a good way to win the Cold War.

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Told by Palin Ni Lap, a European-schooled economist from a small, unnamed South Asian country, stranded with his American wife in a peasant family's hovel during a monsoon, it seethes with the complex rage, pride and frustration of an educated third world aristo who can't find an easy place for himself at home or abroad.

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Mostly young, well-educated and dressed like mall rats, many are self-employed and can work at home.

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Around 20, 000 home educated children are currently known to authorities, but estimates put the true figure at between 40, 000 and 80, 000 children.

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Horsfield and Yip, who hails from Hong Kong but was educated at Harvard, also own another 21 beds further toward the top of Moganshan at what they call naked Home Village.

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